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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Later that year, not to let his new wealth go to waste, he bought the Magna Casta for $1.5 million. The real one, Signed by Bad King John in 1215. He donated the document, which had been held all those years by an aristocratic English family, to the National Archives in Washington...

Author: By Joseph F Kahn, | Title: Ross Perot: What to Do With Billions | 7/4/1985 | See Source »

...magna cum laude Government concentrator who calls himself a liberal socialist, Huang Yasheng wrote his thesis on agrarian reforms in rural China. Its conclusions took a surprisingly critical view of the communist regime: Huang found that economic changes did not bring about the social progress that the government had sought...

Author: By D. JOSEPH Menn, | Title: Question Authority | 6/6/1985 | See Source »

...receive College-wide honors under the new regulations, a student will have to attain a minimum overall GPA in addition to meeting separate departmental requirements. The College-wide standards agreed upon are an 11.0 GPA for cum laude in General Studies, 10.5 for cum laude, and 12.0 for magna cum laude. Requirements for summa cum laude are subject to annual adjustment by the Faculty...

Author: By David S. Hilzenrath, | Title: Johnny Cum Laude | 3/21/1985 | See Source »

...receive college-wide honor under the new regulations a student will have to attain a minimum overall GPA in addition to meeting separate departmental requirements. The college-wide standards agreed upon are an 11.0 GPA for cum laude in General Studies, 10.5 for cum laude and 2.0 for magna cum laude. Requirements for summa cum Laude are subject to annual adjustments by the Faculty...

Author: By David S. Hilzenrath, | Title: Johnny Cum Laude | 3/20/1985 | See Source »

Students nominated for cum laude by their department must now also carry a general gpa of a 10 (B-minus) and at least a B-minus in two-thirds of their non-department courses. For magna seekers, the gpa must be 12 (B-plus) and the minumum grade B, while the requirements are stiffer still for summa candidates...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Get Tough | 12/5/1984 | See Source »

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