Word: kappa
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...problem outside the family is that your father is President, the problem inside the family is that your father is perfect. A legendary Andover athlete, George Sr. went to war and became a hero, came home and became a husband, went to Yale and became a star: Phi Beta Kappa, baseball-team captain, fraternity president, Skull and Bones member--all in less than four years and always upholding the family code. At supper with parents Prescott and Dorothy, boys were expected to wear ties and use the right fork. There was lots of love but no sloppy affection--and certainly...
...Bush children seemed capable of making a name for himself the old-fashioned way, it was brother Jeb. He was the one on the fast track, the serious son, the Phi Beta Kappa, the one with the ambition and focus that W. disdained. A family adviser explains the relationship this way: "W.'s kind of like the guy who spends the night before the test in his Corvette, running around with two cheerleaders, and drives by the brainiac's house and says, 'Jeb, can I have your notes?' The brainiac gets an A, but W. slides by with...
...checkbook. A mix of Mister Rogers and Warren Buffett, he talks softly and lives simply in a plain house in Summit. He earned his money the old-fashioned, pre-dotcom way, as one of the most successful, nerves-of-steel bond traders in Wall Street history. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Illinois and a former Marine, he worked his way through the University of Chicago's business school and up the ladder at Goldman. Although he lost his co-chairmanship of the firm in a complicated power struggle, he made no blood enemies. Flashy...
...next year. Mira Lew, who had hired a professional college counselor to help her win the admissions game, became a history major at Columbia--and has since landed a job at Marvel Comics. Parham Yashar also moved on quickly from his Harvard rejection. He will be graduating Phi Beta Kappa from UCLA a week from Saturday, then off to Northwestern Medical School...
...Kappa Eta chapter of the Sigma Chi fraternity begins renting apartments in a house on 45 Mount Auburn St., a development that Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III terms "unfortunate...