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...what makes our job fun is deciding which PRL's to believe. For instance the boy in the class of 1964 with the lowest PRL graduated magna cum laude. We didn't believe...
...Charles Magaziner is a former Long Island pizza-eating champion who has prodded Brown University into some of the liveliest academic reforms in the U.S. He did it by sheer intelligence, without manhandling a single dean. Last month Magaziner delivered the senior class valedictory, collected his magna cum laude degree in an interdisciplinary program called Human Studies, twirled his Phi Beta Kappa key and looked ahead to two years at Oxford as a Rhodes scholar. Brown itself looked ahead to sweeping curriculum changes that might never have occurred without Magaziner...
...great charter. Under a proposed statute repeal bill, some 200 British laws that are "no longer of practical utility" are likely to be scrapped soon by Parliament, including one "prohibiting common night walkers in the universities." More significant, all but two of the remaining twelve provisions of Magna Carta are also to be struck from the books...
...articles unaffected by the bill, one prevents the King from revoking certain powers and privileges of local governments. The other article is regarded as Magna Carta's most important legacy, for it sets forth the seminal notions that a man has a right to a speedy trial and may not be deprived of his rights without due process of law: "To no one will we [the King] sell, to no one deny or delay right or justice. No free man shall be seized or imprisoned, or stripped of his rights or possessions, or outlawed or exiled, or deprived...
...Lord Chancellor, Lord Gardiner, described the proposal as "a start towards getting rid of a lot of junk," his words rang like alarm bells. Leaping to his feet, Lord Leatherland cried: "I should hate historians of the future to say that Lord Gardiner was the man who said that Magna Carta was junk." The Lord Chancellor was appropriately chastened. Rising from his comfortable woolsack, he said: "I withdraw the word junk." There is no thought, however, of withdrawing the repeal proposal...