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...point is moot, however, because on Monday the booters defeated Yale, 1-0 (2-1 on penalty kicks), in the first round of the NCAA tourney, and gained the home-field advantage for their next playoff game, Sunday against Boston University...
...UNITED STATES' worst bureaucracy, the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), is at it again. Devoid of compassion and ignorant of the word mercy, this mean-spirited agency is as close as America gets to the Gestapo; it terrorizes random individuals whose "crimes" are moot and who certainly have never endangered the safety of anyone...
Parliament can moot those decisions simply by passing new, retroactive laws that circumvent the courts' objections. Still, at least some of the judicial impact is likely to last. Says Jules Browde, chairman of South Africa's Lawyers for Human Rights Organization: "The importance of these cases is that they have led to an increased awareness among lawyers that all is not lost. Things can be done...
...agitated for maintaining "constitutional" rule. In her nine-page proclamation, the President stressed that she would retain all the rights guaranteed in the 1973 constitution (among them freedom of speech and assembly). The infamous Amendment Six, which allowed Marcos to claim emergency powers under martial law, was rendered moot because the proclamation gives Aquino full legislative powers. Justice Minister Neptali Gonzales, who helped frame the provisional constitution, pronounced the new government "revolutionary in origin, democratic in essence and transitory in character...
...organizers said nothing was said about the current UAW effort because they don't feel it remains a significant competitor for worker support. "The UAW is sort of here, but they don't have the support of any of the employees," said organizer Kris A. Rondeau. "It's a moot point," she said...