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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...students from Yale are commonly better speakers and appear better in moot court and the lecture room than those who graduate here,” he wrote. “The societies in this college are miserable enough, ill got up and badly sustained...

Author: By Alexander B. Cohn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Before Obama... Hayes? | 11/2/2008 | See Source »

Though federal funding rules for this research appear likely to change no matter which candidate is elected, the recent discovery of less controversial approaches to creating stem cells might render the point moot. McCain and Palin have said this potential is reason to hope there will one day be no need for embryonic methods...

Author: By Clifford M. Marks and Kevin Zhou, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Obama, McCain Likely To Back Funding for Embryonic Stem Cell Research | 10/24/2008 | See Source »

...matter how politically correct the idea of a smoking ban is, should have negotiated the policy with the union," says APSCUF president Steve Hicks, adding, "[It] was insensitive to not recognize the impact on their largest constituent group - the students." PASSHE's Marshall counters that this claim is moot due to the new statewide anti-smoking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Smoking on Campus? Pennsylvania Smokers Fume | 9/29/2008 | See Source »

...Nevertheless, this is an important book for both sides, even if pro-choice supporters might have to work a bit harder to apply its lessons. There's still an even chance, too, that they'll elect a President and a party likely to render the book moot come November...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America Without Roe v. Wade | 9/25/2008 | See Source »

...Yongbyon - which provided the nuclear fuel with which the North has built its small arsenal of nukes. Inspectors have been barred from Yongbyon, and the regime told the IAEA that within a week it would restart the reactor, rendering all the diplomatic progress made by the six-party talks moot. "What they've done is trouble," Gregory L. Schulte, the U.S. representative to the IAEA, told reporters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's Behind North Korea's Nuclear Power Play | 9/25/2008 | See Source »

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