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Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz entered the week with the 2016 political life expectancy of a turtle crossing a six-lane highway: Success is not impossible, but the job requires one very lucky turtle.

Even if Cruz had won Indiana's primary, he would have only had a very narrow chance to win the Republican Party’s nomination for president. With Donald Trump's decisive win Tuesday, the billionaire real estate investor might still seem an unlikely nominee, but he’s close enough to victory that any other outcome would be reported as a huge upset.

Cruz, the last Texan standing, dropped out when the results were known. Even the semi-Texans have had a hard time this year. AndMBA Programs

Texas Tech to Launch Rare Accounting Program

Texas Tech's virtual tour of the Rawls School of Business, starting at the entrance

(Corrects headline, first paragraph, and third paragraph to reflect that Texas Tech University's was the second school of accounting to be launched in Texas. Stephen F. Austin State University established its School of Accounting in 2008)

Texas Tech’s Rawls College of Business will become only the second school in Texas to have its own accounting school.

The accounting program includes nearly 500 graduate and undergraduate students, most of them enrolled in a five-year program leading to an M.S. degree. On Aug. 15, it will become the School of Accounting, one of only about 40 such schools in the nation—and the first in Texas—with separate accreditation in accounting from the Association