Word: models
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...going to be a real festival of resistance," says Scott Nova, director of the Citizens Trade Campaign, a prime mover in Seattle. "We want to stop the current model of globalism that helps giant corporations at the expense of virtually everyone else...
...decades, 11,200-year-old stone spear points from a site in Clovis, N.M., have been held to be the earliest evidence of settlement in the hemisphere--and many archaeologists have been loath to give up this "Clovis first" model. But since the 1970s, it has been challenged by the discovery of still older sites on both sides of the continent, most notably a 17,000-year-old rock shelter in Meadowcroft...
...just a woman who looks good in lingerie, or as one French politician claims, "the very symbol of the failure of socialism"? This was the debate surrounding LAETITIA CASTA last week as reports surfaced that the Victoria's Secret model had abandoned her native France for London and its more advantageous tax laws. The move inflamed Parisian patriots because last year Casta was chosen to be the model for Marianne, the allegorical female symbol of the French Republic that adorns town halls across the country. Under siege from the media--and the Interior Minister, who warned...
Novelists who put real, that is, historical, people in their works seem willfully to be choosing the worst of two worlds. If the fictionalized portrait veers too sharply from what is known about the original model, the author will be rapped for excessive or irresponsible inventiveness. But if the facts of the matter are honored and carefully rehashed, critics and readers will ask why the damn book is called a novel...
...more to life than surfing. I dunno know... roofing, painting? I've always liked photography. I love traveling so maybe missionary work. I do Habitat for Humanity so maybe something like that. Besides, I've been in this business since I was two years old; I was a baby model. My mom was a model-she's hot-and she was my "tie-in." Acting was always a hobby. In high school, I was more interested in chasing after chicks and playing sports. Then I had to find some way to make money and I got a part on "Young...