Word: model
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...goes well this semester, Flat World hopes to offer its books to all academic institutions starting next January and eventually expand its titles across several disciplines. But it still faces a long road to success. There is, for one, its business model. Founder Frank and his partner, Jeff Shelstad, another Prentice Hall alum, say the company plans to forgo advertising on the site and instead make money by selling supplemental materials like study guides, podcasts and paper copies printed on demand for about $35, or about a third of the cost of a traditional textbook...
Plenty of pop albums have been ripped apart by music critics - including a few by model-singer turned French First Lady Carla Bruni. But Bruni's newest release, Comme Si Rien N'Etait (translation: As If Nothing Happened), out July 11, has elevated her well beyond ordinary targets of music snobbery like Vanessa Paradis or Kylie Minogue...
...horribleness of commenters isn't really a mystery: Internet anonymity is disinhibiting, and people are basically mean anyway. Nor is it a mystery why the people who run websites put up with commenters: the economic model for Internet content is based on advertising, which means it's based on traffic volume, and comments mean traffic. They're part of the things that make online publishing work. TIME.com enables comments on its blogs, including mine.) It's just hard to tell whether they're ruining the Web faster than they can save...
...addition to the worldwide celebration of his 90th birthday, I wanted TIME to mark it in a significant way. To me, Mandela's model of leadership is so profound and historic that I decided to focus on explaining what the world can learn from it. I went back to South Africa last month to talk to two of the men who know Mandela best: Cyril Ramaphosa and Ahmed Kathrada. Ramaphosa is one of the great leaders of modern South Africa (and a favorite of Mandela's) and was the powerful head of the National Union of Mineworkers when Mandela...
...appearing fearless, inspire others. It was a pantomime Mandela perfected on Robben Island, where there was much to fear. Prisoners who were with him said watching Mandela walk across the courtyard, upright and proud, was enough to keep them going for days. He knew that he was a model for others, and that gave him the strength to triumph over his own fear...