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...fifth reunion gave doubles evidence to the notion that yesterday's revolutionaries have beaten their awards into scalpels and traded their red books for writ books. These is attendance were primarily lawyers and law students, with a smattering of doctors, academics, and other professionals, and one unemployed moot-suiter...
Real People. Whether or not Americans actually do understand the Pythons' uniquely English nonsense is moot. Their comedy is crowded with jokes about British TV announcers and politicians; their best sketches are intimate parodies of the idiocies of British life. Moreover, their style is the opposite of hard-hitting American humor. The Pythons can hardly summon a wisecrack among them. However, Program Director Ron Devillier of KERA in Dallas knows what endears them to Americans: "They have a nice sense of sex." Says a Philadelphia insurance broker: "They're the only real people on television...
DeFunla sued the University of Washington Law School in 1971 for allegedly discriminating against him in favor of minority applicants with lesser academic credentials. The case was ruled moot by the Supreme Court last year...
Kissinger had also kept the possibility of renewed American air assaults open by refusing to entertain "hypothetical" questions about any such contingency plans. Even if there had been an understanding between Nixon and Thieu, Nessen argued last week, it had been rendered "moot" by the congressional limits placed since then on the presidential use of American military power...
Marco DeFunis sued the University of Washington Law School because he was denied admission in 1971. DeFunis claimed he was better qualified than minority applicants who were admitted on the basis of their race. The Supreme Court declared the case moot last year because DeFunis had already graduated...