Word: mootness
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...blessed with a lead actor who looks uncannily, definitively Messianic. From the moment Adam Isaacs strolls onstage in his white tunic, smiling and nodding at some 25 adoring followers, any doubts as to the feasibility of staging a gospel-inspired rock opera at a predominantly blow-dried university become moot. The illusion of Deeper Meaning holds. And in a show which draws about a third of its emotional impact from that illusion and another third from the power of an extraordinarily rich score, such a visual bonus is no small gain...
Associate Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and U S Court of Appeals Justices Ruth Bader Ginsberg and John J. Gibbons entered a packed Austin Hall as the final round of the Law School's annual Ames Moot Court competition got underway...
...student) on federally connected dependents living at the Army's Fort Belvoir. The Justice Department filed suit to block the move, but the crisis was defused when Congress passed a continuing budget allocation. That same allocation also made a suit in York County, Va., moot. But many observers believe that if the Reagan Administration continues to cut the Impact Aid budget, some definitive resolution of the issue, perhaps in a precedent-setting court case, should not be put off indefinitely. A Justice Department official glumly predicts, "This problem is going to get worse before it gets better...
...although the argument has an appealing ring to it, it is moot. Other universities and colleges as Owen acknowledges, simply do not have the kind of alumni wealth that makes Harvard's capital drive--the largest attempted by a college--possible...
...stories always come up with someone even greedier, or some force of history that the duck cannot best. In the end, Scrooge's enjoyment of wealth remains essentially benign, childish in its selfishness, but childlike in its spirit. Whether the old miser would acquire this volume is a moot point. It is pricey; on the other wing, it is an investment. An entire genre of clothbound comic strips from Little Nemo to Doonesbury has flourished in the post-Pop era, but seldom has such loving care been lavished on a volume of bygone entertainment. Collectors would have...