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Another bill, sponsored by council member Mary I. Naber '98, calls for the council to pressure the Metro District Commissioner of Massachusetts to place a pedestrian crossing sign at the intersection of John I. Kennedy Street and Soldiers Field Road, across from the gates to the athletic complex Naber said she and others have seen several students hit by cars at that intersection...
Vidal is a first-rate essayist, one of America's finest, though a rather more pedestrian novelist and playwright. His memoir lacks the sharp, confident voice of his essays, while the characters, like those in his novels and plays, often come across as wooden and two dimensional. He complains over and over to the reader of his frayed memory, his disinclination to look backward, his lack of a diary (he relies altogether too much on other people's memoirs instead). As a result, Palimpsest has a kind of haphazard feel, with the present frequently intruding upon the past...
...took issue with a report by the engineering firm Rizzo and Associates, who told the city council that the lane shrinkage would provide pedestrians and drivers with an improved view of one another, thereby increasing safety. "I'm worried there will be either an impact on traffic flow or on pedestrian safety," Galluccio said...
...that is an oxymoron. In democratic politics there is no such thing as political transcendence. That is the stuff of the romantic political extremism of Europe. Fascism, communism, Nazism offered politics as a passage to some higher reality. In democracies, and in particular in American democracy, life is more pedestrian. You offer your program, you make your case, you pass your legislation. The notion of rising above politics is either cynicism or sentimentality...
...provide] pedestrians and drivers with an improved view of one another," Pell wrote. "[It] also reduce [s] pedestrian crossing distance, thereby lowering their exposure time to vehicles...