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...between police watchdog groups and private colleges. If the legislation passes the House and is signed into law by Governor Mitt Romney, HUPD and other private university police forces would join state and local police in releasing their reports publicly. The bill’s success would also render moot a decision handed down by Massachusetts’ highest court in January, when the Supreme Judicial Court struck down a suit brought by The Crimson against Harvard. The newspaper had argued that private university police are bound by the same public records laws as their publicly-funded peers. HUPD?...
Raymond C. Etcitty, the chief counsel for the NNLC, argued that the issue was moot because the dispute between the Perry and her employer had already been settled...
Many of the old reporters worry that their legacy is moot; that the risks they and their colleagues took were minor and perhaps futile in the face of an overwhelming system of segregation. “It’s going to take until some of them are in the ground for things to change,” says Carr of the old segregationists...
...fear that this would be used in a covert bomb program. Now, Iran appears to have already achieved that milestone - even though it remains years away from being able to manufacture its own reactor fuel on an industrial scale or create bomb material - which could render that objection moot...
...fast-paced schedule, was set to finally see its first vote. After Wilfried Schmid, the Robinson professor of mathematics, said that because the words “such as” appeared in an explanatory note to the secondary fields legislation, the debate over double counting might be moot, Summers quipped, “Seems like an appropriate comment for a mathematician to make—although I don’t understand it.” Speaking after Summers, Dillon Professor of International Affairs Jorge I. Dominguez said, “As the conversation we’ve just...