Word: magnas
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Currently, candidates for degrees cum laude must receive minimum grades "in at least two-thirds of the appropriate completed letter-graded courses outside the field of concentration," as stated in the 1984-85 Handbook for Students. The minimum GPAs for cum laude and magna cum laude degrees are B- and B respectively...
...Magna catches the antihero in the act of talking himself out of the love of his life. "She's too good for me. She's too beautiful, too intelligent, too perceptive, too creative, too everything," begins an interior monologue that could be a manual of masochism. In that story the woman walks out kindly. Not so the 20-year-old in For a Man Your Age, whose explanation of why her lover is too old for her is cruel beyond the call of love or duty. She knows all a man's vulnerabilities and has deadly...
...Magna Carta...
...Seated in the Armoury, a second-story room lined with muskets, swords, pikes and other antique weaponry, the summiteers listened as Thatcher broached her notion of the political communiqué on democratic values. Thatcher felt strongly about the idea. "The Brits are treating this like it's the Magna Carta," said a U.S. official...
...diplomatic opening. From the moment her Royal Air Force VC-10 touched down in Budapest, the Prime Minister sought to find and build on shared moments in history to strengthen the connections between the two countries. At a gala banquet in her honor, she noted that the Magna Carta of 1215 had been an influence on the Golden Bull, a similar document drawn up by a King of Hungary seven years later. She also noted that the bridge across the Danube near the Országház (parliament) was a copy of the Hammersmith Bridge over the Thames...