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In practice, the Fifth Committee has exercised the kind of micro-management over personnel and expenditure that ought to be exercised by the Secretary General if the UN is to operate effectively and to have a staff which is up to the challenges facing the organization.

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Where did anybody get the idea that you ought to stay arm's length from politics?

So, "Large-scale governmental surveillance of email and internet traffic ought to be permissible as means to combat international crime and terrorism."

In fact, what we ought to do is take a page from their playbook, because the initiatives and programs that have been set in place for women in science and engineering and mathematics are fantastic.

They've done a lot of good for girls in these situations, and we ought to be thinking about how we can make that happen for boys too in their younger years.

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