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...Since the tumultuous period from 1969 to 1970, when the Harvard student-run ratio station WHRB was permitted to put meetings on the air, the doors of the Faculty Room have been closed to all but Harvard-affiliated print media...
...pretty sure Feldstein was exaggerating the 99-1 split in economics, but I have often thought that education research shows precisely the opposite ratio of agreement to disagreement. Education experts seem to concur on almost nothing. Research in the field is so politicized and contradictory that you can find almost any study to support your view. If economics is a 99-1 science, education is a 1-99 circus. (See pictures of a public boarding school...
...says Mark Mitchell, owner of the motor yacht Sovereign. A well-trained staff knows how best to define what guests want out of a charter. They know how to quickly tweak itineraries and deal with demanding requests. "You'd be hard-pressed to find a resort that has the ratio of staff to guests that a charter has," says Jeff Beneville, a broker at Camper & Nicholsons...
...that’s what I’m saying. It was a punch event tonight, all dudes. It completely threw off the ratio...
...back-of-the-envelope calculations, at all-male institutions the ratio is usually a bit off. Besides, wasn’t he too once one of those hopeful, doe-eyed sophomores...