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...student can graduate with honors without taking a more rigorous honors track, why would he or she wish to put in the additional effort? Students who want to graduate magna or summa cum laude would still take the honors track, but they would have done so regardless of the change. Certainly there are many reasons to take an honors track that are unrelated to what degree one receives upon graduating, but the importance of this motivation cannot be ignored...
...write the story, Aitken turned to our newest senior writer, Elizabeth Gleick, who came to us from PEOPLE magazine (as did Aitken). Gleick, raised in New York City, attended Yale, where she enjoyed editing the Yale Daily News Magazine more than going to classes--though she still graduated magna cum laude in 1985. Back in Manhattan, she found an entry-level job at Vogue. ``I think I worked out because I could type fast and still get lunch every day for five people,'' she says. ``But there was no way I could dress as well as everyone else...
...rarely gone for grand, overarching Themes. Besides, I've already written two virtual magna opera for this very editorial page on semi-overarching themes. I don't think the world really needs another...
...worry. In the Gingrich camp, optimism runs rampant. Alvin Toffler and a few other seers prepared a "Magna Carta for the Knowledge Age" for the Progress and Freedom Foundation, which supports Gingrich. The authors dismiss in Tofflerian language those who fret about social balkanization in cyberspace as "Second Wave ideologues" (that is, Industrial Revolution dinosaurs, not clued in to the "Third Wave," the knowledge revolution). "Rather than being a centrifugal force helping to tear society apart, cyberspace can be one of the main forms of glue holding together an increasingly free and diverse society." The key to a "secure...
...there was a turning point in the public image of home schooling, it came in 1987, when Grant Colfax got into Harvard after having been taught by his parents his entire life. Grant graduated magna cum laude, became a Fulbright scholar and graduated from Harvard Medical School. One by one, his home- schooled brothers followed suit. "Our kids were more or less the guinea pigs," says Micki Colfax, who along with husband David home schooled all four Colfax children from their home in Boonville, California (pop. 750). "Their going to Harvard validated what home schooling was all about...