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Ultimately, most University officials cling to the hope that students will snap out of their slacker spells...
...simple knowledge that information of the final portion of Harrington's book arose from candid conversation between doctors and divinity professors, neurologists and national health program directors, causes the reader to cling to every word of the last 40 pages. Some dialogue is amusing--Professor Spiro of Yale speaks of "feeling like a knight, very macho" when treating acute pain--and other comments are slightly disturbing: Professor Fields of California asserts that "part of what we do as physicians is to scare people" to add to placebo effectiveness. Anne Harrington herself contributes to the discussion of the placebo and each...
Vigdis, who presided over Iceland for 16 years, encouraged women to "get educated, get educated, get educated so that you have some knowledge to cling...
...much more than a slender arc of farm and beach land surrounding the volcano, could virtually disappear. More likely, the mountain may keep on belching for months or years, slowly smothering the little island. Already it is a paradise lost for its citizens as fewer than 4,000 cling to their homeland. "If everyone leaves," says Radio Montserrat general manager Rose Willock, who lost her home a month ago, "Montserrat will become just another island that...
...Despite all that has happened, De Klerk still seems to cling to the Gorbachev image. The first order of business in his post-political life is ? you've guessed it ? a book deal...