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Supreme Court Justice William H. Rehnquist visited Harvard yesterday to answer questions at the Law School and preside over a moot court competition. During an hour-long question-and-answer session he said that Senators should vote along ideaological lines in confirmation hearings for Supreme Court justices...
...ordered metaphor of anxiety. No one has ever painted this allegedly laid-back town in this way before; and after seeing Thiebaud's disturbing images, it is hardly possible to see the place in the same way again. Whether the tourist business will thank him for it remains a moot point...
...National Security Decision Directive embodying a compromise of sorts: the Administration would not repudiate the new interpretation of the treaty but would not act on it either. In his San Francisco speech and in subsequent remarks to NATO Foreign Ministers in Brussels, Shultz proclaimed the issue to be "moot." A broad interpretation "is fully justified," said the Secretary in San Francisco. But SDI testing would "be conducted in accordance with a restrictive interpretation...
...entire controversy was made moot, however, by UMass' domination of play. Harvard's offense never got a chance to benefit from the smaller field because it seldom had control of the ball long enough to mount a legitimate drive on goal...
Alexander Welles Moot...