Word: modelling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard Real Estate (HRE) prepares its bid on the land at St. Paul's parking lot over the next two weeks, a proposal has been introduced to use some of the space as a transitional living center for homeless families. Though the establishment of such a model dwelling for the homeless will not return the greatest immediate profit to HRE, the benefit to the University as a multidisciplinary sociological research project makes this transitional living center a valuable long-term investment...
...interest of "strategic cooperation." True, Israel is the United States' staunchest ally in the region, and abuses are hardly as serious as in other countries in the Middle East. But we should expect better from a state founded in response to intolerance--one that for so long was a model of principled government...
Another relatively inexpensive gift is a dust cover to help keep a computer from collecting nasty particles floating around a dorm room. Dust covers ($10-$40, depending on its size and shape) are designed to fit specific computer models, printers and monitors--so it's important to know what brand and model you are trying to purchase...
...miles away in Ceylon -- that the Spanish Steps, Rome's great gathering place for tourists, are actually owned by France and leased to Italy for an annual fee of one lira (about .07 cent)? Where else can it be learned that Henry VII's Queen Elizabeth was the original model for the four queens in a deck of playing cards, that Venus is the only planet with a rotation from east to west or that Cyrus the Great could address every soldier in his army by name...
...such portraits, Van Gogh attained the grave humane fullness of his great model Rembrandt; the landscapes are like nothing anyone had painted before. No wonder the little asylum, with its worn flagstone corridors and pine-shadowed garden, remains one of the sacred sites of modernist culture. Here, as in Manet's Paris and Cezanne's Aix-en-Provence, art turned on its pivot in the 19th century to face the 20th. One does not see many exhibitions like this in a lifetime...