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...2004—promises to be a close race. McCain’s win in New Hampshire reshuffles the Republican outlook, likely making him and former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, the winner of the Iowa caucuses, the leading contenders for the nomination. The results were a jarring blow to Romney, a graduate of Harvard Business School and the Law School, who considers the state his home turf and had spent more than twice as much money as McCain. IOP Director Jim Leach, a former Iowa Congressman and a moderate Republican, said that as the race continues, those candidates...
...Providing Gen Ed such a period for development, while still granting the Core the immediate funeral it deserves, calls for a temporary suspension of general course requirements. While this suspension might seem to strike a blow against broad education, it is worth remembering that the current program actually stifles many Harvard students’ personal quests for breadth. The faculty must agree it is bizarre that the current system, supposedly meant to acquaint students with various disciplines, ignores courses such as Psychology 1, “Introduction to Psychology” and History 20a, “Western Intellectual History...
...exercise in harvesting convention delegates one grueling state at a time. The rules under which delegates are allocated - divided proportionally in each state, rather than the winner-take-all system that the Republicans use in many states - make it hard for any Democrat to deliver a knockout blow in just a few contests. But her victory in New Hampshire has staved off a mass defection of fund raisers and prominent endorsing Democrats, as well as the more than 150 "superdelegates" - elected officials, party leaders and others who are delegates by virtue of the positions they hold - who had pledged their...
...last. Already, Huckabee is airing television ads in the state boasting of his tough approach to illegal immigration, McCain's Achilles' heel. Meanwhile McCain's strength, foreign policy experience, happens to be Huckabee's most glaring weakness. (In the run-up to Iowa, the silver-tongued Huckabee seemed to blow a fact or have a verbal slip whenever he tried to speak about the crisis in Pakistan...
...Heels (2-1) dealt Harvard its final blow of the day. Injuries finally caught up with the Crimson as it managed only one win to finish the day’s competition...