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Roger Williams was the regatta’s runner-up, followed by Yale, Brown, Georgetown and St. Mary’s. Harvard’s 217 total points were just 15 points more than seventh-place Tufts...
...Romney's first-place finish was just the logical next step in his mechanical push toward January, the genuine surprise of the day was Mike Huckabee's runner-up placement. The former Arkansas governor captured 2,587 votes (18% of the total) to Romney's 4,516 (32%), and said after the results were announced that he had spent less than $150,000 on the effort. Unlike rival campaigns, the Huckabee operation rented no buses for the event, relying on supporters to transport themselves to Ames. And more remarkably, Huckabee's vote total was higher than the number of tickets...
Sopen B. Shah ’08, runner-up in the America’s Junior Miss 2004 competition, agreed that some Harvard students get the wrong idea when they hear about her participation in the contest...
...Still, New Zealand has won two of the last four America's Cups and been runner-up in the other two. That is a better record than the country has in the next event to which it will turn its attention, September's Rugby World Cup in France. For many Kiwis, defeat on the water is one thing. Defeat on the rugby pitch... now, that's pain...
Success in the global beauty market, however, is not necessarily embraced back home. Last year's Miss Universe runner-up Kurara Chibana has been a commercial hit back in Japan; and with her east Asian facial features she has snagged more than 100 magazine pages and was chosen to be the spokesperson for a popular shampoo Asience, which celebrates Asian beauty (other endorsers include the Chinese actress Ziyi Zhang). However, Miss Universe Mori fits the more statuesque, chiseled mold of Latin American and southeast Asian beauties. When a Japanese sports daily mistakenly published Miss Thailand's picture as Mori...