We called them Bermanites, after their intellectual and sartorial model, an English teacher named Robert Berman: a small, thin, unsmiling man who papered over the windows of his classroom door so that no one could peek through.

NEWYORKER: The Master

When the framers took from English practice the parliamentary weapon of impeachment, they recognized that the form of the government they had created, with its finely tuned balance among the branches, was inconsistent with the parliamentary dominance inherent in the English model.

CNN: Transcript: White House Counsel Ruff's opening statement

Several years ago the department got into hot water over utterly misbegotten "model" curriculums for teaching English and American history.

FORBES: Fact and Comment

The English draper founded his fashion house in 1858, presenting collections of model garments from which clients could choose.

WSJ: Some Like It Haute | 'Paris Haute Couture' at the H?tel de Ville

The Model Curricula for Journalism Education is currently available in seven languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Nepali, Russian and Spanish.

UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES

The topic of greatest attention in social media last week, by contrast, was a BBC Magazine story about a 13-year-old English kid who gave up his iPod for a week to try an original model of a Sony Walkman, according to Pew.

FORBES: Journalism

G10 group of rich countries has come up with model collective-action clauses that are, in many ways, weaker than those that already exist under English law.

ECONOMIST: IMF/World Bank meetings