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...Mitt Romney, Huckabee's principal rival in Iowa, receives the roughest treatment. Huckabee writes that the former Massachusetts governor's record was "anything but conservative until he changed the light bulbs in his chandelier in time to run for president." He notes that Romney declined to make a congratulatory phone call after Huckabee beat the odds to win the Iowa caucuses, "which we took as a sign of total disrespect." He mocks Romney for suggesting, during one debate, more investment in high-yield stocks as a solution to economic woes. "Let them eat stocks!" Huckabee jokes...
...treatment of former candidate Fred Thompson, a rival who helped sink Huckabee's upstart ambitions in South Carolina, is somewhat more favorable, if only because it is less personal. Huckabee maintains that Thompson's biggest mistake was strategic: he didn't understand the need to expand the Republican Party beyond its base. "Fred Thompson never did grasp the dynamics of the race or the country, and his amazingly lackluster campaign reflected just how disconnected he was with the people, despite the anticipation and expectation that greeted his candidacy," Huckabee writes...
...Crimson season skidded to a halt on Friday night, as the women's soccer team lost a heart breaker, 3-2 after penalty kicks, to Boston rival Northeastern in the first round of the NCAA Regionals. Lightning could not strike twice for Harvard on the night. After miraculously defeating Columbia 2-1 with nine seconds remaining in the second overtime last Saturday to win the Ivy title, the Crimson could not repeat its dramatic success. Harvard lost 4-2 in penalty kicks against the Huskies. But it looked like junior keeper Lauren Mann had put the Crimson ahead earlier. Tied...
...schools' biggest grouse against rankings, such as the lists produced each spring by U.S. News & World Report, is that they take a complex institution and crunch it down into a single score. Critics castigate U.S. News not only for rewarding schools for such things as outspending their rivals, but also for basing a whopping 25% of a college's ranking solely on how its reputation is rated by administrators at rival institutions. (See pictures of the college dorm room's evolution...
...loss to Yale, No. 19 Harvard (7-1, 4-1 Ivy) now sits in a three-way tie with Brown and Penn (5-3, 4-1) atop the Ivy League.But by no means is anything guaranteed, as the Crimson travels to Philadelphia this Saturday to take on its rival league leader. Despite being on a six-game winning streak during which it has outscored its opponents by an average of two touchdowns, Harvard must keep in mind a particularly sobering statistic—the Crimson is just 1-12 in its last 13 visits to Penn dating back...