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Nevertheless, the slip was amply quantified. The primary cause was the inclusion of a new factor in the method of ranking. This factor was the percentage of classes with more than 50 students, said Mel Elfin, the magazine's special projects editor and executive editor of the supplement...
...When you're America's oldest and richest university and your yield is higher than the other schools and your reputation is world-wide, this [ranking drop] doesn't affect Harvard really one way or another," Elfin said...
...quarters without skipping an edition and began publishing page-long lists of personal messages phoned in by townsfolk--messages such as "To Mary O'Leary from Vicky Misialek: If you need a place to stay, please call." Same thing on radio. A woman named Marci heard that elfin mayor Pat Owens, elected in a landslide last year after assisting four mayors over 32 years, had fled her house with only two sets of clothes. So Marci called KNOX-AM to offer more...
...tale of Hansel and Gretel. This is the Worship House. Within it Elohim's spiritual father, Robert Millar, 71, preaches a mix of Christian Scripture and heterodox tales of Germanic, Celtic and Scandinavian tribes--the true Israelites who will provide God's terrible soldiers at Armageddon. Lately, though, the elfin, white-bearded patriarch of the Christian Identity compound has been making a big point of how Jesus ministered to outcasts. "My king ate with publicans and sinners and had a prostitute wash his feet," Millar told TIME last week as he sat in a black Lincoln Continental near Elohim City...
...fact, it is unlikely that had an impact on the shift in rankings. According to "Best Colleges" supplement editor Mel Elfin, himself the recipient of a master's degree here, Harvard's drop can be attributed to a change in the criteria, rather than a decline in the quality of a Harvard education. For the first time, the percentage of classes with 50 or more students was included as part of the equation used to rank the schools. At 21 percent, Harvard more than doubles Yale's nine percent. It isn't until 31st-ranked UCLA, with 29 percent, that...