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...following juniors have been elected to the Alpha Chapter Phi Beta Kappa. Those elected are: Hillel M. Bennett of Lowell House and Swampscott; Robert J. Doris of Winthrop House and Woonsocket, R.I.; Michael A. Fifer of Lowell House and Elmhurst, N.Y.; Elliot F. Gerson of Quincy House and Storrs, Conn.; Frederick O. Holley of South House and La Jolla, Calif.; David L. Johnson of Adams House and Indianapolis,; Herman B. Leonard of Currier House and New York City; Joseph F. Nagy of Claverly Hall and Arlington; Eliot W. Nelson of Dunster House and Berkeley, Calif.; Edward M. Stolper of Winthrop...
...merely an act of pragmatism in an era when only half of marriages survive? "People still want to be committed to a long-term, lasting relationship, but we've become a society in which you can't depend on permanence," says New York University sociologist Kathleen Gerson. "They need to be and feel economically self-sufficient, but that flies in the face of our ideals of trust and companionship. Typically, when we are faced with two competing, irreconcilable values, we pursue both and deny the inherent contradiction," she explains. "One form of denial is secrecy...
American Secretary of the Rhodes Trust Elliot F. Gerson ’74 said he does not know why Harvard is so dominant in the Rhodes competition...
...have no idea,” Gerson said. “But it is reasonable that the competition roughly reflects the selectivity of the student body...
Bush's ardor for the topic grew during a trip to Japan last month. He told aides that if Japan, which had little or no experience with democracy before World War II, could embrace the system, so could the people of the Middle East. The speech, written by Michael Gerson, went through 10 drafts, with input from Condoleezza Rice and other national-security aides. All were aware that Bush's words would implicitly criticize his father's Administration, among others, for its support of dictatorships: "Sixty years of excusing and accommodating ... did nothing to make us safe." After delivering...