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However, FAIR cheered one part of Lifland’s opinion, in which the judge suggested that the Pentagon had misinterpreted the Solomon Amendment. But if the provision currently before the Senate becomes law, Greer said, that section of Lifland’s opinion might become moot...
...prepares to move into an all-white neighborhood. But it remains a tough and truthful drama that raises all the key issues without haranguing. Even P. Diddy's presence seems somehow right. He represents a generation that has made the debate between assimilation and African pride all but moot. He moved into the ultimate lily-white neighborhood--East Hampton, N.Y.--and throws the best parties around. And he's a big star who has risked critical derision to help recapture an important moment in the history of black drama. Now that's progress. --By Richard Zoglin
...hour it was exactly what people wanted—no more, no less. Rumors of Busta’s last-minute unwillingness to do the concert were largely moot, as the performance was entertaining, over the top and gave at least the illusion of being spontaneous. It’s too bad we had to feel ever-so-slightly cheated by the whole act, which arrived late and left without wasting any more of its time...
What makes over-the-counter access to the morning-after pill all the more important now is that it would render many of these restrictive measures moot and keep these morality demagogues out of a woman’s personal family planning decisions. Yet the FDA seems more concerned with how this policy will affect teen sex rates rather than how it could reduce teen pregnancy rates. A recent editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine condemns the FDA for allowing “political considerations” to delay their decision on this issue...
What makes over-the-counter access to the morning-after pill all the more important now is that it would render many of these restrictive measures moot and keep these morality demagogues out of a woman’s personal family planning decisions. Yet the FDA seems more concerned with how this policy will affect teen sex rates rather than how it could reduce teen pregnancy rates. A recent editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine condemns the FDA for allowing “political considerations” to delay their decision on this issue...