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...newly released details reveal that the Law school will now award its Latin honors—cum, magna cum, and summa cum laude distinctions—on a proportional basis, with the summas going to the top one percent, magnas to the next 10 percent, and cum laudes awarded to the final thirty percent of graduates...

Author: By Elias J. Groll, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: HLS Clarifies Grading Changes | 4/21/2009 | See Source »

...Port R and R. For just $179 per night, at Marriott's Casa Magna Resort & Spa in Puerto Vallarta you get: an in-room spa bath upon arrival, two spa treatments, two fitness classes and daily breakfast during your four-night stay. The offer is good through Dec. 18 with the promotional code ZJ1. Paseo La Marina 435, Marina Vallarta, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico; 888-PARADISE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hotel Freebies: Yoga Classes and Spa Treatments | 4/5/2009 | See Source »

...public sector already has plenty of institutions that do the job of a West Point in the form of high-ranking government and public-service schools. The government would be well-served by starting a “Public Service Fellows” program in which students who graduate magna cum laude are put on an official career fast track. Of course, this does not mean that such graduates should be blindly promoted regardless of competence. But simply giving a promise of open doors and professional attention ahead of time—in return for merit-worthy work?...

Author: By Anita J Joseph | Title: Serving My Country—and Me | 3/4/2009 | See Source »

...rights violations, and served as the Director for the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia. Though he was a new faculty member at Yale Law School, Sullivan received the award for outstanding teaching in his first year. Currently, he directs the Harvard Criminal Justice Institute. Robinson, a magna cum laude graduate of the University of Maryland, was named one of Ebony Magazine’s 30 young African American leaders of the future in 1997. She presently serves as CEO of The Jamestown Project, a national think-tank compromised primarily of minorities and women that focuses on democracy...

Author: By Bita M. Assad and Ahmed N. Mabruk, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: New House Masters Chosen | 2/12/2009 | See Source »

...Attended the private all-girls Emma Willard School in Troy, N.Y., and was an avid tennis player. She majored in Asian studies and studied Chinese at Dartmouth, where she graduated magna cum laude. She received a law degree from UCLA in 1991 after completing an internship at the United Nations Crime Prevention Branch in Austria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: N.Y. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand | 1/23/2009 | See Source »

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