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...community, backs the policies he has followed since his appointment in 1975, but he is a source of irritation to the other incumbents. A few weeks ago the Convention rammed through Lannon's contract extension several months before the old contract expires. The issue of his contract is now moot, but both sides are still talking about...
...Bakke's lawyer originally told him to wait until the Supreme Court decided the similar case of Marco DeFunis, who had charged that the University of Washington Law School had rejected him because of "reverse discrimination." Since DeFunis was later admitted, the Justices declared the case moot in 1973 and thus left the basic issue unresolved...
...Luxor in Upper Egypt around 2000 B.C. and was continuously added to by generations of succeeding rulers. Now, however, this temple in all its splendor may have a rival. A team from New York's Brooklyn Museum has begun excavating the grounds of the temple of Mut (pronounced Moot), Amon's consort, a few hundred meters south of the temple of Amon, and has hit archaeological pay dirt. The new site, which was used continuously from around 1400 B.C. until as late as Roman times, not only links many of Egypt's most illustrious pharaohs, but casts...
...Skelly Wright, of the U.S. Court of Appeals, D.C. circuit, and Hon. Edward Hennessy, of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, will also be judging the competition, in which third-year law students argue fictional cases in a moot court...
Hennesy said he is looking forward to sitting with Burger and Wright, adding the case before the Ames Competition is much better than those he usually sees in such moot courts...