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Harvard’s chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa academic honors society announced the election of two dozen members of the Class of 2003 to its ranks Monday...
...Harvard chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, established in 1781, is the oldest continuously operating chapter in the country...
...devotees wait in line at the temple bearing offerings of orchids, cigarettes, bottles of M-150. At the head of the queue, sitting in the lotus position, is Luang Phi Pao, a young monk whose arms and legs are covered with tattooed mantras and serpents. He dips a pointed, 60-cm silver rod into blue black ink infused with Chinese herbs and snake venom. With a steady rhythm, he delicately jabs Niwet Paopunsri, an auto mechanic, inscribing the words The Heart of Lord Buddha in ancient Khmer on the small of his back. (That's Pao's specialty; other monks...
...graduated from the College summa cum laude in Classics in 1957 having received a half-dozen prizes in Greek and Latin and having been inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa society. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard four years later...
...they were locked in the body of a pigeon-chested, sunlight-averse hypochondriac. And there are many athletes who actually do contribute to Harvard outside the gladiatorial arena. But their stories have not been trotted out in the current Harvard media coverage. Where are the sidelined athletes who made Phi Beta Kappa, who founded national sexual assault awareness groups, who were stringers for The Associated Press? You can find them if you know where to look...