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Selection for the Rhodes, the nation's oldest international study award, is based on high academic achievement, integrity of character, a spirit of unselfishness, respect for others and leadership potential, said Elliot F. Gerson '74, the American secretary of the Rhodes Scholarship trust...
Harvard's Rhodes total is now 293. Yale andPrinceton claim 194 and 181 recipients,respectively, Gerson said...
...said it is not surprising that multiplecandidates come from selective nationalinstitutions. Gerson said national privateinstitutions may have an advantage over publicinstitutions because of the broader geographicmake-up of their student body...
According to Gerson, this year's recipients arefrom the broadest representation of schools inrecent history. Five institutions had their firstscholars named...
...like Brad Sherman. "Ladies and gentlemen, I'd like to thank you," Sherman, a first-term House member, told his "town hall" audience last week in Westlake Village, Calif. "You asked 27 questions tonight--and not one about Monica Lewinsky." Those in attendance echoed the words of rancher Grant Gerson, 77, who said, "People are fed up with it. I don't think it's relevant to anything going on here." And yet Sherman, who won his seat in 1996 by just 5 percentage points, is concerned that the scandal will cost him 3 of those points this year, turning...