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...School introduced a new course this year to teach courtroom argument to some first-year law students, replacing the traditional student-run moot court competition...
...three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals continued this trend by deciding unanimously last Tuesday to throw out a suit brought by Democratic congressmen that charged President Reagan with violating the resolution. The court claimed that the ceasefire in the Iran-Iraq War had rendered moot the legislators' case that Reagan had acted illegally by introducing troops into a hostile setting in the Persian Gulf without notifying Congress...
ANYWAY, the question is moot. There is no need for another public debate on biotechnology. Several years ago, after intense debate in Congress, the universities, and the media, the federal government decided to allow the patenting of small microorganisms. The nation's policy has already approved of granting ownership to man-made forms of life. Must the Congress demand a damaging pause in scientific research every time a different organism is patented, whether it be a virus, mouse, or worm...
Most of the finalists expressed surprise atbeing selected, but Bedell said that the smallpool of nominees prepared her. "I was very pleasedand surprised, but after the surprise and theshock of being nominated, you know you're at acertain level and getting it becomes moot...
...Jews and Arabs who found their way into Grossman's book no longer worry about who cast the first stone, who knocked out the first eye or the first tooth. The etiology of the conflict has long since been rendered moot by reciprocal violence and the hardening of mutual hatreds. As read in the West Bank, history comes with a curse. A conversation between Grossman and a young Palestinian teacher in the refugee community of Deheisha...