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...quarter. Already hammered, the stock fell again, to $14, from around $40 in December. The consensus today is that Nortel will earn 14[cents] a share--down from expectations of 98[cents] four months ago, according to earnings tracker FirstCall. The revised earnings picture gives the stock a price/earning ratio of 100--more than twice its lofty P/E of 41 when the stock was much higher...
Harvard Law School (HLS) also placed high in the ranking, finishing third behind Yale and Stanford. For the first 10 years that U.S. News released rankings, HLS finished second, falling to third only last year, in part because of its high student-faculty ratio...
...last year's ranking HLS was ranked 116 in the faculty to student ratio-with a ratio over double that of Yale Law School. This fall, HLS committed to adding 15 new faculty positions within the next ten years...
...weekends, he'll be racing his bike with the other guys from the neighborhood, down at Bangkok's superslum Klong Toey. That's why tonight, a few days before the race, he is working on his bike, removing a few links of the engine chain to lower the gear ratio and give the bike a little more pop off the line. He kneels down with a lighted candle next to him, his hands greasy and black as he works to reattach the chain to the gear sprockets. Around him a few teenage boys and girls are gathered, smoking cigarettes, some...
Summers has proposed hiring 200 new professors as well as promoting significantly more junior professors to tenured positions, according to The Boston Globe. If implemented, these changes would represent strong shifts in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) from its current student to faculty ratio and traditionally stern reluctance to tenure from within...