Word: model
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...want to see if a different model that better suits the needs of our student body is something that we can offer,” Svoboda wrote in an e-mailed statement...
...attorney and author of All You Need to Know About the Music Business, insists his clients aren't on a crusade. "What this is all about is that they wanted to get their record to all their fans at the same time. This is not meant to be a model for the industry," he says...
...There's real urgency for the labels to get together and figure this out," says Rick Rubin, the Grammy-winning producer turned co-head of Columbia Records. "I think what Radiohead is doing is really cool, and I went online and ordered the record. But until there's a model in place that gives the audience everything it wants in one place, there are going to be a lot of experiments like this. Some will work pretty well, others...
...boards with their specifications. Yet the discontinuity between public persona and private desires can be dangerous. One of the fundamental assumptions of Craigslist, what makes it so amusing for the rest of us, is that everyone is taking himself seriously. When people start posting or responding flippantly, the whole model unravels. Anonymity in expression fails to coincide with anonymity in action—as in the case of Senator Craig. If the other occupant of the bathroom had been taking things seriously, Craig might well be known for nothing more than his approval of Homeland Security appropriations...
...Pakistani President overthrown in a military coup in 1977 and executed the following year, looms like an hallucinatory apparition over the poverty-stricken salt marshes of central Sindh Province. Meant to evoke the soaring grandeur of Mughal monuments, from a distance the concrete monstrosity rather resembles a Play-Doh model of the Taj Mahal pinched to fit on a foundation substantially trimmed by the high price of land in the family's ancestral seat of Larkana...