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...running to test a new pesticide called chlorfenapyr. The chemical was applied last week; in a month, Terminix will be back to see how well it has worked. If the bugs are gone, friends and family will pitch in to help repair the damage--a skill Patrick's father Virgil Beyers Sr. honed 20 years ago when Formosan termites nearly destroyed his house. With any luck, Kayla Beyers, 4, won't have to do it all over again two decades from...
...student who nominated Tarrant praised his creative lecture style and use of visual and audio aides. At one lecture for "The Rome of Augustus," Tarrant even sang part of an opera based on Virgil's Aeneid...
...contest's rules do not specify whichlanguage the participants must speak. Matthew A.Carter '99, who is also a Crimson editor andresident of Dunster House, recited a selectionfrom Virgil's "Aeneid" in Latin, although heprovided a translation to the judges...
...living usually get away with lying until they're in the limelight. Federal Judge James Ware often told the moving tale of how his younger brother Virgil was gunned down by two white teenagers right before his eyes, an event that occurred on the day in 1963 that four black girls were killed when a church was bombed in Birmingham, Ala. He called the death a defining experience that made him "hungry for justice." Last month he withdrew his nomination to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Virgil Ware was killed all right, but he was no relation...
...another demonstration of questionable judgment surfaces in the character of the Sorceress, who takes on the role which the gods held in the classical story of Virgil's Aeneid. This part, an alto role traditionally assigned to female singers, is performed by a male student, Christopher Thorpe '98, who someone must have decided was a counter-tenor of some sort. However, all of his lines sounded as if they were sung in a bad falsetto. The odd effect was emphasized by a very strange makeup job which made Thorpe's Sorcerer seem not like something supernatural or frightening but merely...