Word: phi
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Getting the job was a long shot, even for a summa-candidate, Phi Beta Kappa economics concentrator from Harvard. One-hundred twenty applicants competed for two spots...
Then a history concentrator, Halberstam says he had difficulty focusing on his schoolwork, and graduated without honors. Finishing in the bottom half of his class, Halberstam would have been hard-pressed to believe that he could ever be a member of the prestigious Phi Beta Kappa honors society...
...years later, the self-described “terrible student” has been nominated for an honorary membership in Phi Beta Kappa to commend his impressive career as a journalist, including his coverage of the early years of the Vietnam War for the New York Times and his 19 subsequent books...
...work has been well-received not merely by Harvard’s Phi Beta Kappa society. Halberstam won a Pulitzer Prize in 1964 for his incisive reporting on Vietnam, and his 1972 book “The Best and the Brightest” has since been deemed the definitive account of why and how the U.S. intervened in Vietnam...
...following 88 members of the Class of 2005 were elected to Harvard’s chapter of Phi Beta Kappa...