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There is at least one outfit trying to reverse the sport's direction. Magna Entertainment Corp. (MEC), a spin-off of Canadian auto-parts maker Magna International, has spent about $1 billion to buy 12 U.S. tracks over the past five years, including Pimlico and Bay Meadows. The company may also bid for the scandal-plagued New York Racing Association's tracks, which include Saratoga and Belmont Park. "I love horses, but I just got bored going to the racetrack," says Frank Stronach, Magna's chairman, who became one of the world's top breeders while he was making billions...
Estrada graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa with a bachelors degree from Columbia in 1983. He went on to graduate magna cum laude from HLS in 1986, where he edited the Harvard Law Review...
...total number of magna cum laude honors awarded by Harvard College dropped for the second year in a row, with the Class of 2003 receiving 10 percent fewer degrees at that level than their predecessors. Administrators say the decline may have been prompted by faculty awareness of the new, more restrictive honors policy that will be in place next year...
Four hundred and thirty members of the College’s most recent graduating class came away with magna honors in their field of concentration; the previous class boasted 484. The class...
...life had suddenly manifested itself." Only when faced with his essential self, and the realization that sex, drugs and travel have not brought him any closer to the Zone, does he catch a fleeting glimpse of his Holy Grail in the Roman ruins of Libya's Leptis Magna. "Immediately there was the sense?which I've had in only a few places in the world?of entering not so much a physical space as a force field, a place where time has stood its ground." But Leptis is only a brief sojourn on his inexorable descent, which culminates...