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Throughout the embarrassing saga, the Faculty relied on a bright hope and a false promise, praying that the election of Bill Clinton would make ROTC a moot issue. But Clinton's pledge to lift the ban went the way of most campaign promises. And the Faculty is still trying, by every means possible, to avoid taking a stand...
...course, those who say they would have pulled the trigger do so far removed from 1930s Germany. The issue is moot...
...accustomed setting for the polite interchanges of moot court got a slightly different sound at the Law School yesterday: an auctioneer's "Going once, going twice, sold...
...calm outskirts of Bophuthatswana: scores of whites in khaki uniforms were driving towards them at top speed, brandishing automatic weapons. The inevitable massacre ensued. The police did not suspect that the whites had come, too late and without warning, to help them dispute what had become a moot point of history. The whites, still looking ominous though they had tactfully removed their swastika-like armbands, became (and were in any event) armed invaders against whom the country had to be defended. The extreme hatred between the two groups completed the mix; the last, wounded survivors of one car were killed...
...unethical to copy material from your roommate's unpublished thesis? The main problem here is that your roommate would probably be more likely to take action against you. Thus, the author confuses the impracticality of stealing with the ethical considerations of doing so, which at Harvard apparently should be moot...