As great universities do, we want to model, as best we can, what we hope to see elsewhere in America: engaged citizens seeking a better understanding of each other in the face of issues that divide us, for the sake of a stronger, more closely connected community, a community trying to live up to values and aspirations that all of us rightly share.
The resulting Nobel peace prize was rightly shared between Mandela and De Klerk, a sharing that has been ignored by almost all the past week's obituaries.
It brought Mungiu a prize for best screenplay at Cannes, where the best actress award was rightly shared by his leading players.
"Hathaway," about the soul singer-songwriter Donny Hathaway, was, however, remarkable for the fine live singing and music from Ty Stephens and SoulJaazz, which rightly shared the spotlight with the dance.
The cast of Days of Glory rightly shared the best actor award at Cannes for their ensemble work, and the outstanding photography, slipping often between colour and black and white, is by Patrick Blossier.
It was in the negotiation of apartheid's end that Mandela's greatness found its fullest expression, and that greatness is in no way diminished by remembering that the last leader of South Africa's apartheid-era government, F. W. de Klerk, with whom he hashed out the terms of surrender, rightly shared the Nobel Peace Prize with him.
As with this year's prize, I don't think anyone doubted that the recipients made massive personal contributions and the committee chose well, but similarly, few would doubt that an element of the glory is rightly shared by all those members of the collaborations who contributed.
Suarez has rightly shared the plaudits with fellow attackers Daniel Sturridge and Raheem Sterling as Liverpool have been transformed from outsiders to title front-runners since successive losses at Manchester City and Chelsea over the Christmas holiday.
As Welch rightly notes, share prices are supported by the value created in product markets by the interrelationship of employees, customers and suppliers.
Modern health-care systems rightly consider shared decision making (i.e., effectively involving patients in decisions about their treatment) to be an essential component of patient-centred care (Committee On Quality Of Health Care In America, 2001; Secretary of State for Health, 2010; Barry and Edgman-Levitan, 2012; Stiggelbout et al, 2012) and cancer care in particular (Epstein and Street, 2007).
It will show that, having rightly taken a share of the credit for the economic good times over the past decade, the prime minister is prepared to accept a share of the blame: not simply for the current economic difficulties the country is experiencing, but also for the wider problems the government has faced this year.
