Word: magnas
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...transient domains of fashion and snobbery, and in any case sycophancy is not unique to America or to Western societies. Harder to grasp is the way in which Western principles discriminate against the non-Western or nonwhite. Who or what is the villain here? Galileo? Einstein? The Magna Carta? The Bill of Rights? Was Martin Luther King Jr. diminished, made to feel inferior, when he read Henry David Thoreau along with Gandhi on civil disobedience? Or for that matter when he contemplated the Reformation launched by his 16th century German namesake...
Sacks graduated magna cum laude from the College of the City of New York in 1940. He subsequently served in the military. After receiving a LL.B., magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School in 1948, Sacks served as clerk to Judge Augustus Hand on the U.S. Court of Appeals and Justice Felix Frankfurter on the U.S. Supreme Court...
Harvard Law School, LL.B. 1964 magna cum laude...
...Harvard College, Souter joined Hasty Pudding and majored in philosophy. He wrote his senior thesis on Justice Holmes' belief that a judge should not be influenced by either politics or ideology. He graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. For a graduation gift, friends put together a scrapbook of made-up news stories featuring Souter as the lawyer he hoped to be. One headline read, DAVID SOUTER NOMINATED TO THE SUPREME COURT...
Bush is gambling that the liberal coalition that launched the fight against Bork will be stymied by a paradox: nothing could be more difficult than to draw battle lines on a blank slate. While there is ample evidence of the quality of Souter's intellect -- magna cum laude Harvard graduate, Rhodes scholar, Harvard law -- most of his judicial experience has been on New Hampshire's state supreme court, which is more likely to consider auto- insurance cases and commercial litigation than divisive social issues like abortion and affirmative action. Elevated to the U.S. Court of Appeals in Boston only last...