Word: moot
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...student at Harvard Law School, Patrick’s oratorical skills would win him the 1981 George S. Leisure Award, granted to the best speaker in the final round of the Ames moot court competition...
...moot. The nasty ads, personal attacks and avalanche of money may have little to do with the outcome of Tuesday's race, since both candidates appear to have forgotten the twist on Tennessee's ballot: a proposed amendment to the state constitution that would ban gay marriage-which both candidates support. Under state law, a constitutional amendment can be adopted only if more than 50% of the people voting for governor vote for the amendment. Political insiders say that usually causes great confusion at the polls and results in many one-shot votes: instead of simply abstaining from the governor...
...these are moot points in comparison to the final flaw of the book, and the truly fatal flaw in the current Democratic leadership: vacillation and foolishness on the War in Iraq...
Also at Columbia, a College Republican complains that the university denied his group's request to protest Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad scheduled speech there. Of course, Ahmadinejad never came, so it's kind of a moot issue, but a compelling opinion piece nonetheless...
...only has Hizballah survived very much intact as a military force; it was able to inflict substantial military and civilian casualties on Israel right until the truce came into effect. Most important, talk of preventing Hizballah's "return" is moot, because it was never actually driven from southern Lebanon, where many of its fighters remain active despite the presence of some 20,000 Israeli troops in their midst. Israel's more realistic goal, of course, was to eliminate the rocket threat on its northern border. The extent to which that has been achieved remains to be seen: Hizballah was firing...