Word: magdalene
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...channels, a highly successful website, a major international expansion--to say nothing of the fight with the government that provides much of its money and is about to rework its charter--"the BBC is having to justify itself in too many directions at once," says Anthony Smith, president of Magdalen College, Oxford, and a former BBC producer. Commercial media rivals like News Corp, which controls the satellite-TV network Sky, vent that the BBC's subsidy gives it an unfair advantage with which to expand into their territory. "The BBC is probably under more hostile attack than it ever...
...eagle, and Mark the lion. Two sets of plaques from processional crosses are beautifully enameled with these figures, the greens and blues breathtakingly vivid through so many centuries. Sometimes Adam rises from his tomb on the bottom spar, and in one mid 1400s Italian work it's Mary Magdalen at his feet. Another striking theme is to show the crucified Christ on one side of the cross, and Christ-in-Glory (complete with halo and benevolent-yet-judging expression) on the reverse-a visual crash course in basic theology...
...There is no hidden agenda at Magdalen," the website stated. "We believe in access and will use our resources to encourage applications from all quarters, but we equally value candidates from schools that have been sending us fine candidates for years...
When Oxford University's Magdalen College rejected Laura E. Spence '04 and Harvard accepted her last spring, an uproar of protests swept across Europe...
...according to the Magdalen website, students from all types of schools have and have always had, equal opportunity...