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Following is a list of the 24 new inductees to the Phi Beta Kappa Iota Chapter of Massachusetts...
Shamir tried unconvincingly to put a positive gloss on events. "These matters contain nothing new," he said of the amendments. "We did not alter one iota of the peace initiative." Yet Shamir's labored efforts at spin control could neither disguise the fact that he had sacrificed his fledgling peace plan to his own political survival nor hide the painful truth that as long as that is his primary aim, Shamir will be vulnerable to right-wing pressure...
...orthodoxy -- as he made clear last week in his maiden address. Jiang skipped lightly over his long-standing commitment to open-door economics in favor of defending the wave of repression that has followed the crash of the democracy movement. Said the party boss: "We shouldn't have an iota of forgiveness...
...much remembering. In Funes, the Memorious, Jorge Luis Borges tells the story of a man who suddenly gains the ability to remember every iota of information he has ever apprehended. Every vein of every leaf of every tree, every formation of every cloud in every sky at every instant of his life he sees. An avalanche of knowing renders him inaccessible, mystical and finally defeated. Funes dies young. No mind can apprehend God's work, or man's, in all its detail and survive. Forgetting, for men as for nations, is a biological necessity, like sleep, a respite from consciousness...
...addition, seven men including Erwin Heibert, emeritus professor of Science, William B. Anderson '39, a former University Marshall, and Williams S. Merwin, a poet who was present at the ceremony, became honorary members. And the Iota chapter elected Prime minister Benazir Bhutto of Pakistan, President-elect of Radcliffe College Linda S. Wilson and educator Deborah Nord as recipients of honorary status...