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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...
...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...
...Intel 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...
...House football team were already on the College team. Lowell attracted studious, tradition-minded students who were impressed by formal dinners at the House's High Table. And Eliot appealed to "humanities-steeped club men," as the starting place for a majority of the University's Rhodes Scholars and Phi Beta Kappas, all "awash in Canadian Club." The student government urged the Houses to be understood in terms...
...first-year Scott Krueger dies following a night of heavy drinking at the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity. Krueger's death prompts housing policy changes at MIT as well as a crackdown on alcohol use at area colleges. Less than a month after Krueger's death, Epps releases a statement strengthening Harvard's alcohol policy...