Word: modell
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Bill Cosby not only talked the talk of fatherhood, he walked the walk. Ennis Cosby was not a brat. He was a teacher. Now it's his father who'll have to be one. Bill Cosby has a new role as a model of loss, a paragon of violent bereavement. In Hollywood, privileged, unreal, incredible Hollywood, where imagination transforms reality, reality is taking the upper hand. It's as though the gods of drama have ordained that our entertainers must now act out America's most awful true-life conflicts, no longer just its escapist fantasies...
Using a complex epidemiological model, the study concluded that the outlook for the beef-eating population is unclear: at the very least, an additional 75 Europeans will come down with the disease; at the very worst, a chilling 35,000 could fall ill. The researchers caution that too little is known to make confident projections, and in Britain the paper has had little impact. Beef consumption is about where it was a year ago, and although the government last week banned the transplantation of animal organs into humans, saying the risks needed to be studied, no new panic has broken...
...sure why," he says, "but there have been twice as many letters this year. And they're different. There used to be a lot of 'Please sign this,' but now I'm getting a lot of letters from parents and teachers telling me I'm a role model, which is something I never thought I'd be. And some people are writing to tell me I've given them the courage to face their own problems. That's not why I stopped, to be an inspiration. But if I help people while I'm helping myself, that...
...about Ennis being a reluctant athlete ("My music is the theme from Chariots of Fire and Ennis' theme is Bidin' My Time"). But he admitted, "I could not resist luring my son Ennis out to the track because I wanted to see how my genes looked in a newer model of me." When Ennis was in high school in Pennsylvania, Cosby would take a break from his busy schedule to catch his son playing football...
...Harvard Model Congress, which has been held annually since 1986, will also include history lessons about the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis and the 1965 Civil Rights Amendment...