Word: phi
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Thirteen Radcliffe seniors have been elected to Phi Beta Kappa...
Powell's family heritage well qualifies him for nomination to the Supreme Court's "Southern seat." The first Powell to land in America arrived in 1607, one of the original Jamestown colonists. Powell himself was born in Suffolk, Va., won undergraduate and law degrees from Washington and Lee (Phi Beta Kappa and first in his class) and Harvard Law School, and now occupies an office overlooking a Richmond landmark, the home of Robert...
...active Goldwater-style Republican who worked as a precinct committeeman during the presidential campaign of his fellow Arizonan. But even those who disagree with his conservative views concede his keen intelligence and professional skill. Born in Milwaukee in 1924, Rehnquist went to college and law school at Stanford, made Phi Beta Kappa, graduated first in his law class, and then won the honor of serving a year as legal clerk to the late Justice Robert H. Jackson...
...Vietnam has been a failure of visualization. It has been too easy to develop a seven o'clock news mentality that agonizes only thirty minutes a day. So Coutard particularizes circumstances and thus humanizes them. Hung is a kind of Vietnamese Huck Finn, and the acting of young Phi Lan in that role is completely sympathetic...
Reverse Discrimination As a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Washington, Marco De Funis Jr., 22, had naturally assumed that he would be accepted by the university's law school. He was not, either last year or this year when he reapplied. Aspiring lawyer that he was, De Funis went to court. The main point at issue was that the admission of 30 minority-group students with lower grades and aptitude scores showed discrimination against him in violation of the Constitution's equal protection clause...