Word: magnus
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...registering its rightful website address and student groups accused the same campaign of equivocating its position on ROTC. The campaign of John F. Voith ’07 and Tara Gadgil ’07, the target of these accusations, was also accused of attempting to convince rival ticket Magnus Grimeland ’07 and Thomas D. Hadfield ’08 to withdraw from the race.With former frontrunners Voith and Gadgil embroiled in controversy, John S. Haddock ’07 and Annie M. Riley ’07 won an easy victory. We had gingerly endorsed Voith...
...somewhat more human process may eventually grant John Paul another notable title: The Great. He was already endowed with the title "Magnus" by Rome's La Sapienza University in 2003, while top Vatican Cardinals and even Benedict himself have repeatedly referred to him as "Il Grande" Pope John Paul II. There is no official Vatican procedure for bestowing the title, explained Andrea Tornielli, the Vatican correspondent for Il Giornale daily. "It's something that becomes invested over time," he said. So for the most impassioned followers of the Polish pontiff, there is nothing holding you back from calling him John...
...proposal, according to UC President John S. Haddock ’07. Several council members were visibly upset with the outcome of the vote. Sunday night, a proposal to replace the CLC with a new Outreach and Services committee was voted down. After that defeat, former UC presidential candidate Magnus Grimeland ’07 and CLC’s vice-chair of services, Raul A. Campillo ’09, advocated that the CLC continue as a committee in charge of student services and take on additional duties, including lobbying for a student center and raising money...
...there's the problem of what state governments do with the money they receive from Abuja. Thanks to high oil prices, Rivers, one of the biggest oil-producing states, has seen its revenues increase. But many schools still don't have furniture and roads are crumbling. Rivers' Information Commissioner Magnus Abe says that "there are lots of things we are doing" to develop the state. "Things are changing - whether rapidly depends on how you look at it." A copy of the 2006 state budget obtained by Time shows Government House overheads increasing from $38.6 million in 2005 to $81.1 million...
...physics majors out there, I hear it has to do with the Magnus effect. Or maybe the Bernoulli effect. When it works, it replicates the desired effect of a well-crafted pick-up line: it makes the recipient go weak in the knees...