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...student to faculty ratio is worse than a number of other schools," Knowles said...
...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 lit 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...
...tamping inflation. The idea works in reverse too: cutting rates helps pep up laagging growth. Under Taylor rules, anyone, even Bernie, could make monetary policy. In our globalized economy, the thinking went, everyone from China to Chile could have a Greenspan. All they needed was access to the right ratio and a laptop computer to crunch the numbers. A Greenspan...
Yale, meanwhile, played with precision and poise. The Elis once again finished with a positive assist-to-turnover ratio, and shot 46 percent from the field and 40 percent from beyond the arc. Captain Neil Yanke paced Yale with 18 points and eight rebounds...
Larger departments have a natural handicap in meeting the kind of personal advising and mentoring many smaller departments offer, but that is no excuse for their apathy. As Lewis has noted in the past, departments can improve their advising even with a limited faculty-student ratio. The Department of English and American Literature and Language has made a number of reforms since 1997, assigning each student a permanent Faculty adviser and placing responsibility for undergraduate studies in the hands of a member of the senior Faculty. Failing departments--the sciences, government and economics, among others--should look to their successful...