Word: modell
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...version that just opened on Broadway - directed, as it was in London, by Stephen Daldry - has lost a little of the power it displayed on its home turf. But if Prime Minister Gordon Brown's bank-rescue plan can become the model for the rest of the world's finance ministers, there's no reason why Billy Elliot - the best musical to come out of Britain since Miss Saigon - can't bridge the cultural chasm...
...That Chopra is a smoothie - who in his quest to construct a pleasing and seamless model of the universe tends to jump to easy conclusions and to spackle over problematic gaps and inconsistencies in the ideas he presents - is obvious to all but his most starry-eyed fans. But grousing about such crimes - as many do - does little to explain his enormous popularity. Chopra is as rich as he is today not because he has been dishonest with anyone, but because his basic message - that love, health and happiness are possible, that mystery is real and that the universe...
...felt there was a dearth of ways for him to indulge in this passion. “There aren’t really a lot of creative classes I take or creative offerings [in fashion] at Harvard,” he says while multi-tasking at a model fitting. Parent also believed students were generally apathetic toward fashion, a problem he seeks to rectify. Enter Project East, an idea he and Kristin S. Kim ’09 conceived the summer after their freshman year. “We saw these great designers in Korea and started thinking about other...
...Agenda Dilemma Beyond personnel, the transition period is likely to yield insights into Obama's executive abilities and his agenda. Obama, following a model set by F.D.R. during his transition, has signaled that he does not intend to get deeply involved in the wrangling between Bush and Congress over an economic-stimulus package. Nor does he intend to return to Washington from Chicago to vote on one if it should come to the Senate chamber, where he technically still serves...
...Jungle." These days Chicago is known for blending working-class kitsch - Da Bears and the Cubbies - with cosmopolitan shopping and restaurants on Michigan Avenue. Its graceful mix of cutting-edge, environmentally conscious modern architecture and classic parks and buildings has actually given it a reputation as a model of a 21st-century metropolis, which the city is hoping to use to help land the 2016 Summer Olympics...