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...This is a wonderful glue to hold together the consortium of institutions involved in Harvard Medical School," he says, since the faculty is scattered among the Medical School and the 13 Harvard-affiliated teaching hospitals in the area...
Into everybody's life someone like Bob Wiley (Bill Murray) is bound to fall. "Human Krazy Glue" is how Dr. Leo Marvin (Richard Dreyfuss), the fallee in this hilarious case, describes him. For Bob is a classically needy nerd. Having no life of his own, Bob is desperate to attach himself to someone else's existence and draw psychic sustenance from it in great, draining gulps...
...years the glue that held us together was stopping communism," said Hart, who argued that the nation's energies in the present decade should be devoted to adapting the nation's institutions to the world's current problems...
...ignored. Authorities at Cornell University decided not to discipline students flying flags from their dormitory windows, despite residential contracts that for safety and maintenance reasons prohibit hanging anything from the window. The University of South Carolina officially frowns on students' leaning out of their windows and using Super Glue to affix flags and banners to their buildings. But officials tolerated the practice at one patriotic freshman dorm, where displays inside the window would not have been visible. After protests, the University of Maryland withdrew its objection to students' flying flags...
...quietly pulling for some of Saddam's nastiest henchmen to survive in power. If Iraq's Sunni Muslim ruling elite were to be ousted wholesale, no alternative government could easily take charge of the country's highly politicized military and secret police. Fear of these institutions is the strongest glue binding Iraq's fractious populace, including its long-oppressed Shi'ite Muslim majority and its rebellious northern Kurds. "When the Iraqis stop fighting us," says a senior Bush adviser, "they may turn to fighting each other." The advisers believe postwar stability in Iraq and the region is better served...