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...classroom, where Kashani often appears in a three piece suit and sports a black leather attache case, he is a whirlwind, majoring in economics and chemistry. He took Chem 20 in his freshman year, five courses a semester from then on, and wrote a magna plus thesis on the chemical industry of Saudi Arabia...
Since freshman year Ronis estimates that he,like Moore, has never spent a moment at Harvardwithout being in at least one play. This term, forinstance, he directed or acted in six shows whilewriting a magna thesis on the dramatic monolguesof Robert Browning. With Ronis, as with Moore,quality has never suffered due to quantity: theRichard the Second and the Romeo andJuliet he directed this year earned gushingpraise...
Donald F. Herr '61, who drafts NATO policy forthe Defense Department these days, had similarmisgivings. The magna cum laude graduate says hewas in Cambridge when Fidel Castro received ahero's welcome on campus in 1959, adding that"Castro did not seem quite the ogre that thegovernment made him out to be" at that time...
...surprise, 65 newly jobless parliamentarians from Marcos' New Society Movement remained unpersuaded, accusing the President of dictatorial tendencies and excoriating the new plan as a "Magna Carta of enslavement." Blas Ople, who had served as Marcos' Labor Minister for 17 years, went so far as to charge, with more than a little hyperbole, that Aquino was claiming authority "more absolute, more authoritarian and more arbitrary than the powers gobbled up by the former President...
...laissez-faire housing makes your stomache turn, here's another fair solution: housing based on merit. When Phi Beta Kappa keys or summa and magna degrees are awarded, few people question how deserving the recipients are. If academic achievement and distinction are the currency of the Harvard community, why not let this success principle determine the housing system...