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...School’s recent hiring spree comes as part of an effort to decrease class sizes and the student-faculty ratio, and to raise the level of scholarship in fields outside corporate law and other traditionally strong areas. In an interview last spring, Kagan said that she hoped to increase the size of the Law School’s faculty to over 100, from the 90 faculty members at the time. Today, the faculty stands at 101 full-time professors...
...right college. In fact, they can be misleading. “One very important aspect of these upper colleges is that in a sense they are very incomparable,” McGrath said. “You can measure acreage, the size of a library, or student-faculty ratio, but you can’t measure some certain aspects of a college that will fit a student’s wants and needs. [The rankings] are there to help get you started.” Former Harvard College Dean Harry R. Lewis ’68 also took a circumspect...
Stocks continued to slide despite a spate of actions yesterday by Asian governments to stem financial volatility, boost economies and prop up markets. The People's Bank of China cut interest rates for the second time in three weeks, while reducing the reserve requirement ratio for most banks. The Hong Kong Monetary Authority, Hong Kong's de facto central bank, also reduced the interest rate at which it lends to banks by a full percentage point in an attempt to ease credit markets. In India, policymakers promised to continue to act to keep the financial sector functioning. "If need...
...month intervention, all the girls who read books had lost weight, but the girls who read Lake Rescue lost more. They lowered their body mass index (BMI), a ratio of weight and height used to measure obesity, by .71, compared with .33 in the Charlotte group an average .05 increase among the nonreaders...
...We’re at the bottom of the league in turnover ratio, and it’s a very unfamiliar place,” Murphy said...