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...This songbird is what the terrorists aimed to silence. That's why they targeted the first-class compartments. They could have achieved a higher kill ratio if they had chosen the even more crowded second-class carriages, but their victims would have been poorer. So the casualties were from the great striving middle class, not rich enough to afford a car and driver, but enriched enough by Singh's reforms to commute first class: stockbrokers, small-time diamond dealers, software technicians...
...there's an ER doctor, an AIDS activist, a high-school teacher and a representative from the Organic Consumers Association. There are some that conform to type: thirtyish and pale, sloppily dressed and bleary-eyed. Those are the journalists. There are a lot of them. One organizer put the ratio of conference-goers to reporters at eight to one, which seemed high until I visited one workshop that managed to score drive-bys from the Chicago Tribune, the National Review, the Weekly Standard, Salon, The New Republic and the American Prospect. At one point the room held more representatives from...
...last week, where I caught up with no fewer than eight teachers who had a significant impact on my life. But that kind of relationship is a reality for precious few of us of at Harvard.It may not be surprising that this happens in economics, with its student-faculty ratio of about 20 to 1, nor in government, which has a ratio of 14 to 1. But 15 percent of undergrads concentrate in economics, and another 10 percent concentrate in government. While he was dean, Lewis conducted a biennial survey of seniors about their advising experiences. He found that economics...
...their new expectations, females are taking more math and science courses in high school, because they know these skills will come in handy later on. In 1957, for example, there were 1.39 boys for every one girl in a high school math class. By 1992, the male-female ratio was even. “The playing field had been significantly leveled,” Goldin and Katz write.But on that ever-more-level playing field, women aren’t just matching men—they’re beating them. Goldin and Katz attribute this to the fact that...
...more sympathetic than the administration,” Schatz says.There was also an uproar when the 1981 yearbook poked fun at Adams House’s reputation as a magnet for gay undergraduates, calling it “a haven for homosexuality. Rumor has it that the [sex] ratio is one to one to one, or one to one to one too many.”The comment was condemned by the GSA and the Adams House Committee.The editor of the yearbook, Jared S. Corman ’81, apologized but refused to retract the statement in a letter submitted...