Word: modell
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...awareness of Harvard's position as an global intellectual influence. A "politicized" council should focus on issues like Faculty diversity and divestment from Nigeria. A "de-politicized" council, on the other hand, is one which exists to serve its constituents by addressing tangible quality of life issues. In this model, the council should represent student interests by lobbying for such benefits as extended shuttle service and flyby lunches. This latter model most accurately describes the council's present state...
There is, however, an alternative to the prevalent dichotomy. This alternative, which I will call the "empowerment" model, draws its strength from elements of both the "political" and "de-political" paradigms. In this model, the council addresses both large and small issues, but in such a way that it actively engages the student body. Instead of attempting to influence University policy through direct lobbying, it brings substantive issues back to its constituents in order to facilitate public deliberation and student activism. Working closely with other student organizations, it fosters a greater sense of campus community as well as regained legitimacy...
...model used to measure the prevalence of other addictions--compulsive overeating, for example--is applied to this one, there could be as many as 15 million computer addicts. "The problem is far more common than people are willing to acknowledge in terms of loss of productivity or damage to the economy, as well as harm on a personal level," says Dr. Donald Black, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Iowa College of Medicine. Black, having already studied pathological gamblers and compulsive shoppers, has begun a study of compulsive computer users, since observing that some of the people...
...Wall Street regard Cardoso as their best hope to preserve the credibility of the capitalist discipline they've sold to emerging markets during the past decade, a discipline now crumbling from Moscow to Malaysia. "They're seeing Brazil's struggle as a crucial stand for the orthodox model," says Emily Alejos, vice president for emerging markets at BEA Associates investment firm in New York City. And because it is the linchpin of the dynamic South American market, Alejos adds, "letting Brazil succumb to the global contagion would mean Argentina, Chile and other Latin American countries following on its heels...
Fearful that declining revenues will soon force deep cuts in research and medical education, Duke has moved aggressively to build a new model...