Word: model
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...while this may be a superficial imitation of DeBergalis’s strategy, his real success lay in his aggressive voter registration and his ability to corner the political market on a specific support base.According to political observers, this year’s challengers have not explicitly followed this model, and few have set themselves apart from the opposition.“I don’t see anyone out there running that kind of a grassroots campaign, mobilizing voters as he had done,” said Glenn S. Koocher ’71, who hosts a local political...
...fired at the cops. French leaders tried to strike a balance between condemning the violence and seeking to understand it, but they seemed powerless to impose order on the streets. Above all, the rage expressed by alienated youths dealt a crushing blow to France's self-image as a model of tolerance and social equality. "It's like a forest that's dried out," says Malik Boutih, the Socialist Party national secretary on social issues. "Things heat up, a wind starts blowing, and all it takes is a spark for the whole thing...
...often given away. That have-it-all ethos persists today, even though the resource freebies are long since gone. Other countries--where the acreage is smaller and the pickings are slimmer--came of age differently, with the need to cooperate getting etched into the cultural DNA. The American model has produced wealth, but it has come at a price--with ambition sometimes turning back on the ambitious and consuming them whole...
...Sunni-dominated Anbar province, which includes Fallujah. But Shi'ite-dominated Iraqi security forces aren't ready to assume the burden of imposing order in violent Sunni areas. While the city isn't an outright failure, a military official says the hope that Fallujah could soon serve as a model for U.S. success now looks like "perhaps the result of overzealous expectation...
...would bring if they had power over the UC Concert Commission. Answers ranged from eccentric to old-school. If I had the power, I’d probably bring Elvis Costello…but something tells me that he’ll never be this year’s model. Amber J. Musser, GSAS (tentatively ’08) P.J. Harvey. I’ve had a lifelong obsession with her…I guess you could call it a girl crush. When she performs, she dances around the stage, and screams and moans. She?...