Word: phi
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Scott Krueger was found unconscious in the basement of MIT's Phi Gamma Delta fraternity with a blood alcohol level more than five times the legal driving limit. He died after three days in a coma. MIT has since banished Phi Gamma Delta from campus...
...certain Paul Wellstone of Arlington, Va., scored lower than 800, out of a possible 1,600, on his SAT test. But the University of North Carolina accepted him anyway, and he went on to graduate Phi Beta Kappa. Now he's a fiery U.S. Senator fighting against the high stakes that attach to standardized tests. "Some students," he says, "just think and learn in a different...
...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...
...human 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...