Word: modell
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...thread of a 5-4 decision hangs the ruling that affirmed the consideration of race as one of many factors in the admissions process. One of the two majority opinions emphasizes the positive effect diversity has on education. Harvard's efforts are also lauded as a model for other schools to follow...
...revenue decline in existing stores when new stores are built nearby. Greenberg counters that demand for new restaurants among existing franchisees remains strong, and that McDonald's program for compensating for the impact of new outlets is so exemplary that the state of Iowa adopted it as the model for new franchisee protection legislation...
CITE is a work in progress. Almost 10% of students have quit before completing their internship--some complaining that even with this innovative work-study model, they feel ill prepared to run a class. The interns' journals brim with fears and frustrations, and their mentors are still learning when to intervene and when to let interns learn from their mistakes...
...brought it in was Thomas Jefferson, in his role as architect. Educated in Williamsburg, Virginia, he despised its provincial-English buildings as "rude, mis-shapen piles." Jefferson found his model for a new American architecture in the south of France: a Roman temple, the so-called Maison Carree, or Square House, which he felt exemplified the candid virtues of the old Roman state. It became the basis of his design for the Virginia State Capitol in Richmond, completed in 1799. It was the first temple-form state building to be erected anywhere in 1,500 years--new because...
Hughes begins his series by examining how the brand-new United States sought a national visual style that would express its values. It found a model in the ancient republics of Greece and Rome. Classicism, says Hughes, gave the country "a language of power and authority and continuity to the past, even though it was so new." The man who adapted classical architecture to the American Arcadia was Thomas Jefferson, whose home, Monticello, Hughes visits. Standing amid the emblems of Jefferson's artistic and scientific achievements, Hughes cites him as the "one person from all the dead Americans that...