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...official announcement that cheating has been added to the schedule of the Salt Lake City Olympic Games is being widely applauded as an ingenious gambit that instantly renders the current Canadian-Russian skating brouhaha, indeed all Games-related scandals, moot. Slimy and underhanded representatives of prestige-crazed nations the world over are ecstatic. "I salute the Olympic Committee for at long last granting chicanery its rightful place in amateur athletics," stated one behind-the-scenes manipulator, using a false identity. "No longer must we hide our handiwork in the shadows, only to be hauled before this or that tribunal...
...vehemently against it in another?” Excellent question, and I’m glad you asked. You see, when I am targeted by racial profiling at the airport, there is no chance that I’m going to be sodomized and/or clubbed to death. A moot point, perhaps, but one I feel is worth mentioning...
Last Thursday’s decision, which reads “The School of Public Health will not accept any grant or anything else of value from any tobacco manufacturer, distributor, or other tobacco-related company,” was largely moot. HSPH has not accepted a tobacco-related donation since...
...That was the question hanging over Thursday's agreement by the Taliban to cede Kandahar, its last stronghold, to opposition forces. By Friday, it was a moot point as many Taliban fighters simply headed for the hills rather than hand their weapons over to Mullah Naqibullah, a veteran mujahedeen commander of the anti-Soviet war who helped the Taliban to power but later fell out with its leaders. Opposition forces entering the city found no sign of the Taliban?s reclusive leader...
...Ultimately "From Hell" the movie amounts to little more than a costume slasher picture, complete with punched-up "boo" effects. For those who have read the book the driving narrative of solving the mystery is moot, leaving little else to do except look at how pretty Depp and Graham are. The clear sense of artistic vision has been clouded by the commercial vision of making a blockbuster. In comparison, "Ghost World," with it's integral participation of the original artist, remains the truer, and far more meaningful adaptation...