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...American soldiers were taking, about the kinds of injuries they were suffering and the new therapies the Army medical corps had developed to cope with them. Indeed, one of the differences about the Iraq conflict is that because of advances in battlefield medicine and body armor, a much greater ratio of the wounded are surviving in this war than in previous conflicts. Those are the soldiers we have written about again and again and the soldiers whom Blood Brothers is dedicated...
Ward structured his set according to the Golden Rock Concert Ratio, playing three quarters of the album he was promoting, parsing in favorites from older albums at just the right moments, and combining invention with devotion in such a way that each familiar song was at once recognizable and intellectually engaging as a new work...
...poaching,” or hiring full-time professors from other institutions. Former Dean Robert C. Clark, whom Kagan succeeded in 2003, shied away from the practice during the latter part of his 14 years of service. Kagan spoke yesterday of the need to further decrease the faculty-student ratio by recruiting more professors. Law School spokesman Michael A. Armini added yesterday that the Law School’s aggressive hiring is also due to the large number of faculty who will be retiring in the coming years. This year alone the Law School has hired five tenured professors from...
...often completely unhelpful, as a new professor means a new syllabus and often a different textbook for the same course. Tutorials—seminars in most other departments—are taught by grad students in their area of research. As such, they have a high student-teacher ratio, high grading curve, and even higher esoterica index. Hardly Social Studies 10. However, economics, philosophy, and quantum mechanics classes all count toward the mathematics concentration, and writing a good proof is similar to writing a good legal argument. Though official data isn’t released, anecdotal evidence suggests a gender...
...interim University President Derek C. Bok said yesterday, early admissions “advantage[s] the advantaged” because the pool of early applicants is disproportionately affluent and white. Most strong minority and low-income applicants apply in January. Their secondary schools, where the advisee-to-councilor ratio is astronomical, where most students don’t have the money to visit colleges or hire private councilors, and where bureaucracy likely impedes the processing of applications, are less likely to provide students the information and infrastructure needed to apply early. Besides mitigating some of the advantages of the privileged...