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Joyce Curll '65, dean of admissions at the law school, said that one of three Harvard graduates is admitted to the J.D. program, whereas the overall admit ratio is one of eight or nine applicants. Last year alone, the law school admitted over a hundred graduates of Harvard College...
...primary objective of Drew Gilpin Faust, newly appointed dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, will be to increase the number of tenured women professors at Harvard, where the gender make-up of the faculty stands at an embarrassing and antiquated ratio of six male professors to every female professor. Dean Faust plans to accomplish this by giving qualified female scholars access to Radcliffe’s resources and research programs, which will in turn allow them to gain tenured positions in an institution apparently unconcerned with its faculty’s gender imbalance...
...junior at Northeastern and the president of Northeastern's Black Student Association, pointed out at the press conference that the Institute has not received an increase in its operating budget in 8 years, a decrease in black student enrollment at the university, and a low minority faculty-student ratio as evidence of discrimination...
...this year, he doesn't just go up hacking anymore-and it shows. So far this season, he has almost three hits for every whiff. He has also fanned just once every 7.8 plate appearances, a remarkable ratio. But the most telling statistic-disciples of Peter Gammons will appreciate this-might be his robust .1073 OPS (on-base plus slugging percentage). In layman's terms, that basically means Carter is always either on base or driving in the people...
...earnings prospects of market leaders like Nortel will improve rapidly. Factoring in a recovery, analysts estimate that Nortel will earn 58[cents] a share in 2002. On that estimate, its P/E is 24. Not bad for a company expected to grow 25% annually. That translates to a 0.96 PEG ratio, which is a measure popular with growth-stock investors. The PEG is the P/E divided by the growth rate. Under 1 is cheap. Put another way, they like the P/E to be lower than the long-term growth rate...