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Earlier Saturday the Crimson tookcare of Boise St., clinching the match with a 4-2 edge in the singles competition (thereby making yesterday’s doubles portion a moot point...
...thinking about adapting to changing climate. The administration's position seems to have gone from doubt about the science of climate change to suggesting it is inevitable without ever acknowledging that the nation might take steps to avert the threat. The new position is a clever one: By leaving moot the question of cause, and by implying that no one could have done anything about it, the administration also implies that no one is responsible. The administration underscored its genial "no fault" approach when it recently asked industry to voluntarily reduce emissions...
...does read the paper, in particular the articles that are once again being written about him, and he still cringes at the phrase "king of schlock." He is only slightly bothered that the cultural hand-wringing over his shows has been made moot by the Gong Show-izing of television. "The moral is, Hang in there because things are going to change," he says. Then he rethinks. "I tried to write an epilogue, and I came up empty. The only moral I came up with is, There is no moral...
...time the inspectors begin their work, Iraqi technicians and scientists will probably have already made an end run around them. The inspections will be moot before they even start. What a laughable game the U.N. loves to play, to give Saddam the benefit of the doubt. As for producing a list of his weapons, has anybody heard of fudging? Mike Martinez Lakeland, Minn...
...Fukushima, chief economist of the Nomura Research Institute in Tokyo, reads the demographic tea leaves and deduces that Japan's working population will dwindle so dramatically in the years ahead that the country will face an unprecedented shortage of workers?rendering much of society's current fears about unemployment moot. Japan will have no choice but to move every able body it can to the most competitive and productive industries possible. Furthermore, Japan may have to relax immigration restrictions, extend the retirement age beyond 60 and bring women into the workforce more aggressively, just to meet its labor needs...