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...Ames Courtroom, home of the famous annual Moot Court Competition, next month will host a much younger group of prospective lawyers arguing their cases...
Efforts already underway to stymie the sexual spread of AIDS may have rendered moot the need to widely disseminate condoms. Educational programs in the gay community and elsehwere are turning AIDS into less and less of a sexual disease. A recalculation of New York City's AIDS statistics in October found that contrary to prior (and popular) belief, the disease is killing far more I.V. drug users than homosexual and bisexual...
...character, Porizkova fled the repression of Eastern Europe for America, where she found sudden fame because she is gorgeous. Just as her looks make the question of whether Krystyna has any real acting talent irrelevant to her success, so Porizkova's looks make the question of her own talent moot. It is not that model Porizkova demonstrates in her debut role that she cannot act, but rather, in this movie, Porizkova, like Krystyna, simply doesn't have...
Both the Palestinian Arabs and the Israeli Jews are legitimate nations, culturally, historically and consciously aware of the differences between their neighbors and themselves. The time for bickering about who has the more believable claim passed long ago. Whether the Palestinians "deserve" something from Israel is equally moot--and equally irrelevant. Such considerations have little to do with political solutions. And that's what is needed 40 years after Isreal's founding, a solution...
Jabbing his finger, he claimed to have gone to law school on a full academic scholarship, finished in the top half of his class, won an international moot court competition and been named the outstanding student in political science at a college he said he graduated from with three degrees. "And," Biden said, delivering the coup de grace, "I'd be delighted to sit back and compare my IQ to yours if you'd like, Frank." So there...