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...moot question. The pharmaceutical companies and their well-heeled lobbyists have found pockets to fill and palms to cross for too long. Our elected officials will not make any changes in the way mega-industrial conglomerates stick it to the average American citizen day after day. Shar Porier Homer...
...initial step in an incremental agenda culminating in the overturn of Roe. “[Abortion] is only going to be illegal when people understand that it hurts women and ends the life of the child,” says Tapia. “It’s a moot point to argue for it being illegal until you show that it’s wrong.” The strategy, it seems, is to rope in moderates with liberal language that will make them start listening, and begin to form an anti-abortion consensus. Once abortion is, as Tapia...
Austin Hall’s Ames moot courtroom was converted into a television set as pre-eminent criminal defense lawyers Johnnie Cochran and Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz spent an afternoon and evening addressing a jury of 12, an in-person crowd of around 200 and a nationwide broadcast audience of millions...
...issue quickly became moot. By April 9, the day after the petition was presented, the Iraqi regime was in its death throes. Baghdad was increasingly under U.S. control...
...limited the serving of hot breakfasts to four of the College’s 12 Houses in an attempt to cut board costs. The move sparked student protest and, though a revelation in the spring of 1978 of a Food Services budget surplus rendered the point moot, the hot breakfast controversy exposed undergraduate concerns over how well their student representatives acted in protecting their interests and how receptive administrators were to their opinions...