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Other students said they were annoyed with the rule for different reasons. First-year student Elye J. Alexander '94, who keeps a weevil in an Absolut bottle in his room, said the pet rule is too "ambiguous...
Alexander, acknowledged that his weevil technically violates University policy. But realistically, he said that he does not think it hurts anyone...
...weevil is quiet and well-kept, and liked by all of the dorm. It would be ridiculous to have to get rid of it," Alexander said...
This is a fetching idea and one that applies to America's most public poet. Approaching his autumnal years, the man once feared as a weevil in the nation's moral fiber is in a disarming state of equilibrium. Cultural norms have adjusted in Ginsberg's favor since 1956, when he disturbed the peace with Howl. It was a poetic tantrum thrown at the Eisenhower years, at an academic system that rejected his rude unconventionality, at an encompassing conspiracy he imagined had driven his mother and his soul mates crazy. "Moloch! Moloch!" he cried. "Robot apartments! invisible suburbs! skeleton treasuries...
TEXAS. Last August, when Republican John Tower announced he was retiring from the Senate, the news caught the party off guard. No one had been groomed to succeed the spunky, conservative 23-year Senate veteran. Congressman Phil Gramm, a former Democratic "boll weevil" who co-sponsored President Reagan's budget-cutting legislation in 1981 and 1982, converted to the G.O.P. in 1983 and is now the leading contender for the party's nomination. Running on his "proven record as an effective leader," Gramm has the advantage of appealing to conservative Democrats and independents. His strongest opponent is Moderate...