Word: modell
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Nicknamed "Charlie Hustle," Rose was an fan favorite who often adorned the covers of sports magazines and Wheaties boxes. Unfortunately, like many Hall of Famers, he was only a role model when he stood between the foul lines of a baseball field. The aforementioned Cobb was allegedly a miserable human being. Babe Ruth was purported to be an irresponsible drunk. Mickey Mantle was an admitted alcoholic. It is time for the Hall to stop pretending that it canonizes saints. It should elect Pete Rose to its ranks...
...result was "a model safety policy," Barns said. "It is comprehensive, educational in terms of the staff and protects the safety of the clients...
...tidy as Clinton was sloppy, Lott dressed as crisply as a Sears-catalog model, showed up on time with his homework done and protested nothing. Neither the civil rights movement nor the Vietnam War made much of an impression on him. "I and my classmates came up in more of a positive, upbeat, 1950s kind of great time," says Lott. "We didn't think about national issues...
When Lott became Senate majority leader last summer, he found a new model of pragmatism in a slim volume called First Among Equals, which included a chapter on Robert Taft, the Ohio Republican who led the Senate during the Truman Administration. Like Lott, Taft was a staunch conservative who forcefully stated his views and didn't compromise on matters of principle--but who also worked to achieve the best deal available. "You can't usually get 100% of what you want in politics," Lott says. "But if you can get 80%, or most of what you want, that's usually...
...shortcomings an d failures -- notoriously poor management, an inability to win the support of the top echelons of a police departments still deeply entrenched with Gates loyalists, and very mixed reviews on whether he had made good on his promise to transform Gates% 27 department into a model of community policing. His progress on reforming the discrimination-riddled LAPD has also been slow: three years ago women in the department filed a class action suit,still in the works, alleging discrimination and sexual harassment as well as a pattern of retribution against those who filed complaints. Still, Williams says...