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Hastings says that the policy is just temporary, until he can get wire baskets installed on the North House doors. In the case of the Yard, this has proved to be a reasonable compromise toward keeping litter separate from reading matter...
...compromise that makes superintendents and student distributors happy. Before this compromise was arrived at, however, student publications such as The Independent were forced to circumvent the new rules by offering free subscriptions to all who wanted them. While technically obeying the ban, student publications door-dropped anyway, and the litter problem went unsolved. It was far better to have the publications put in baskets than carry on the bizarre and exhausting charade of "free subscriptions." I hope we do not have to go through that again...
...chased from two other prospective locations. "We'll get him sooner or later," he chuckles. On the drive home, he wheels up to a fading stucco relic aside the four-lane. Shut down long ago, the nude club's blue canopy still flaps amid the weeds and litter, and a garish neon sign towers skyward. "Twenty warrants for prostitution and narcotics," he recalls. "Public-nuisance law and county ordinance. We sent them packing...
...wind dries them, and then they inflate like lungs and rise on the desert air. They come out of the sea like Portuguese men-of-war and then, amphibious, as if in some Darwinian drama, sail off to litter another of the earth's last emptinesses. Reverse Darwin, really: devolution, a flight of death forms...
...talk about Milly and her recent litter has been part of the White House's conscious campaign to make the Bush family appear as one, big, happy clan...