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PoliticAverse

(26,366 posts)
Mon Mar 30, 2015, 07:33 PM Mar 2015

What Was Ted Cruz like at Harvard?

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+.

Read the rest at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/metro/what-was-ted-cruz-like-at_b_6941178.html

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Thor_MN

(11,843 posts)
4. No, I assume that others scored an A as well.
Mon Mar 30, 2015, 07:42 PM
Mar 2015

He probably tied with 30-40 or more on that one class.

NoJusticeNoPeace

(5,018 posts)
2. Then there is no excuse for his EXTREME hatred of ALL human beings who are not EXACTLY
Mon Mar 30, 2015, 07:38 PM
Mar 2015

like him; if he was a moron, we could maybe forgive him.

 

Thor_MN

(11,843 posts)
3. He can't even claim third place, he shared a lower rank with everyone that got an A as well.
Mon Mar 30, 2015, 07:39 PM
Mar 2015

He alienates a lot of people with his pigshit stupid arrogance.

Half-Century Man

(5,279 posts)
6. What was Teddy like at Harvard...Younger
Mon Mar 30, 2015, 08:24 PM
Mar 2015

Same depth of smarmy ooze, but fresher; without that subtle hint of bitterness.

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