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Purists scoff at multitools as gratuitous gadgetry, unfit for serious jobs, but they're missing the point. Multitools are about expecting the unexpected. When you and your buddies find yourselves locked out of your Honda Civic in the parking lot of TGI Friday's at 3 a.m., you want to be the guy who can fashion a crude lockpick using only a beer can and that wire-crimper thingy on your Leatherman...
...Harvard had the resources to buy up the entire neighborhood,” said Allston Civic Association President Paul Berkeley. “People looked at the size and they got very nervous...
...think it’s going to be a very hard sell to get this program concept into implementation,” Chair of the Allston Civic Task Force Ray Mellone told the BRA planners...
...this tales of luggage and body searches have become a staple of cocktail chatter. Yet citizens would willingly subject themselves to delay, inconvenience and even indignity if they felt what they were undergoing was actually improving airport security. Since Sept. 11, subjecting oneself to security indignities has been a civic duty. But this has become a parody of civic duty. Random searches are being done purely to defend against the charge of racial profiling...
...most recent book, Age Power, takes on such civic-minded tasks as saving Social Security. He expects the next decade to be his best ever. Says Dychtwald: "I'm trying to be a wise man instead of a wise...