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Horsemanship alone won't get you into Harvard, of course. To do that, the school offers a 7-to-1 student-teacher ratio and a high-powered academic program that includes four years of English, three of mathematics and foreign language, and two of science, history and fine arts. "We teach people how to think critically," says Marvin Shagam, a popular instructor who studied at Oxford and is trained in judo. "We don't coach for the SATs." The fees for all this are steep: tuition next year will be $16,000, although 44 of the school's 227 students...
...takeover artists, the British leave everybody in the dust. Sizing up overseas opportunities is a talent that seems to come naturally to British businessmen, for whom Canada is often closer than Calais. British companies typically invest $1 on acquisitions abroad for every $3 they spend at home, an astonishing ratio considering that the equivalents for France and Japan, runners-up in the takeover league, are 1 to 16 and 1 to 79 respectively. A survey of cross-border takeovers by KPMG Peat Marwick accountants last year showed that British companies spent four times as much on foreign takeovers as their...
...Republican fund raisers, plant trees and inspect natural disasters. For those who still follow the President wherever he may go, Los Angeles Times correspondent David Lauter has invented "The Poppy," an award bearing Bush's childhood nickname. It will eventually be bestowed upon the reporter who maintains the lowest ratio of paragraphs published to miles traveled with the President. The home offices may bristle, but competition so far is stiff...
Stroke Fabian Birgfeld opened the race for the Crimson at a comfortable 41 strokes per minute for the first five and 20 and settled down to the race cadence of 35. But the rhythm and ratio were not what the crew needed...
With the addition of the five young scholars, Patterson said women faculty members will constitute 50 percent of the department's professors, the highest ratio of any department in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...