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What Was Ted Cruz like at Harvard?
The Huffington Post's The Blog ^ | March 30, 2015 | Metro.us

Posted on 03/30/2015 4:19:11 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Presidential candidate Ted Cruz loved to argue as a Harvard student and boasted he'd get the best grades in his class, only to lose out to two other classmates.

In a series of exclusive interviews with Metro, several of his former classmates painted a complex portrait of the Tea Party's most beloved presidential candidate.

Laurence Tribe, a longtime Harvard law professor, said Cruz took his constitutional law class, challenged his teacher in interesting and "invariably right-leaning" ways at every turn.

Tribe said Cruz bragged to many of his classmates that he would receive the highest grade in the class, which had more than 150 students. That, said Tribe, alienated some. Tribe said Cruz received an A on the blindly graded final, but two people received an A+.

Renowned legal scholar Alan Dershowitz recalled Cruz was "not a very smiley guy," and he thought would become an "extraordinarily able appellate lawyer."

"The first day, he had his hand up and was asking questions," said Dershowitz, who retired from Harvard Law in 2013....

(Excerpt) Read more at huffingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Education; Politics
KEYWORDS: 2016election; cruz2016; cruzharvard; election2016; harvard; intelligence; larrytribe; laurencetribe; scholarship; tedcruz; texas
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I expect to see "What was Ted Cruz like in Kindergarten" eventually.
1 posted on 03/30/2015 4:19:12 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Are you sure you wanna know, huffpo?


2 posted on 03/30/2015 4:19:57 PM PDT by 9thLife ("Life is a military endeavor..." -- Pope Francis)
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To: 9thLife

Keep reading, it’s not all snark.


3 posted on 03/30/2015 4:20:36 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You can help: https://www.tedcruz.org/donate/)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I’d like to know what President Obama was like at Harvard.


4 posted on 03/30/2015 4:21:03 PM PDT by Steely Tom (Vote GOP for A Slower Handbasket)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What was Barack Obama like in college?

Oh, wait...


5 posted on 03/30/2015 4:21:45 PM PDT by Bratch
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Wow... that’s several more classmates than ever talked about Barack Obama’s time at Harvard...


6 posted on 03/30/2015 4:22:11 PM PDT by Skywise
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“I’d like to know what President Obama was like at Harvard.”
So would those in the classes he was supposed to take.


7 posted on 03/30/2015 4:22:20 PM PDT by BipolarBob
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Trying to fabricate the most plausible untruths about Senator Cruz.


8 posted on 03/30/2015 4:22:20 PM PDT by reasonisfaith ("...because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2 Thessalonians))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

This kind of stuff is good for Cruz. He gets some exposure outside the Tea Party, Texas, FR circles. It also portrays some of his personal characteristics rather than trying to make an evil conservative caricature out of him.


9 posted on 03/30/2015 4:24:27 PM PDT by johniegrad
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Boy, Somebody else needs to announce!!!


10 posted on 03/30/2015 4:25:16 PM PDT by CPT Clay (Follow me on Twitter @Clay N TX)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

More than a year before the election, with Cruz nowhere near the nomination, the media are mining Cruz’s college years for “gotcha” material, yet - to this day - Obama’s college years remain largely a mystery, of no interest to the media.


11 posted on 03/30/2015 4:27:06 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: BipolarBob

Huffpo, it must feel really weak to believe an ideology that denies the existence of truth while having to plan your every move so that your lies will look as much as possible like truth.


12 posted on 03/30/2015 4:27:53 PM PDT by reasonisfaith ("...because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2 Thessalonians))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

How about your quota boy president, Huff?

But we already know he was a loser.


13 posted on 03/30/2015 4:28:27 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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What was Obama like In college?

oh that’s right....it’s a secret.


14 posted on 03/30/2015 4:30:42 PM PDT by Crim (Palin / West '16)
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To: Steve_Seattle
"...yet - to this day - Obama’s college years remain largely a mystery, of no interest to the media."

Hannity bemoaned that much of today's media "reporters" is being hired by this obamanation of an administration. :(

15 posted on 03/30/2015 4:35:10 PM PDT by Does so (SCOTUS Newbies Imperil USA...)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Nice assessment by Dershowitz


16 posted on 03/30/2015 4:35:46 PM PDT by BlackAdderess ("Give me a but a firm spot on which to stand, and I shall move the earth". --Archimedes)
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To: Skywise

Because no one remembered him being there.


17 posted on 03/30/2015 4:37:48 PM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Full of weasel words.


18 posted on 03/30/2015 4:37:57 PM PDT by Luke21
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Presidential candidate Ted Cruz loved to argue as a Harvard student and boasted he'd get the best grades in his class, only to lose out to two other classmates.

So he was 3rd in a class of how many?
19 posted on 03/30/2015 4:41:07 PM PDT by cripplecreek ("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
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To: Bratch
what was Ted Like in elementary school....

REAL AUTHENTIC EVIDENCE!!!...Huffpo

Ted's Crew Is a SEXESS! Revrunt Sharpton

I Knew he was a Bully....Hillary CLinton




20 posted on 03/30/2015 4:44:38 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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