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...restaurants, as neighborhood groups had always led the city to believe. "311 democratizes the system," says Charles Sturcken of the city's department of environmental protection, which monitors 18 categories of noise. One result is a new noise-control bill making its way through the city council that would rework regulations on everything from car alarms to ice cream trucks--and require that construction sites have noise-reduction plans. Some of those noise complaints also shed light on an old problem: unlicensed, makeshift bars. But which calls were just about illegal clubs, and which were about rowdy neighbors? New York...
...hyperbolic and rash. By contrast, Cohen laments, books like Who Killed Daniel Pearl? don't get a single bad review despite what he calls their unremarkable writing and problematic ethics. The reason, he argues, is that instead of breaking new intellectual ground, Lévy and his modern peers rework existing ideas to justify media-hyped, crowd-pleasing moralism. "BHL has taken up all the great causes of our time," Cohen writes. "BHL is a bit to literature what Mondavi is to wine." Asked to respond to Cohen's book, Lévy quotes Romanian philosopher Emil Cioran...
...team loses a top forward or defenseman, and it hurts—but there are still dozens more ready to refigure and reformat and rework the systems until the squad finds a way to fill the void. It smarts, but it also happens often, if only because of sheer numbers...
Though we may be torn apart and digested with a vengeance, ceding control of our writing the moment it hits the press infuses our ideas with a power and momentum of their own. And we do, after all, have the opportunity to revise and rework before folding and flying our work off that precipice...
...alcohol committee advocated the position as a way to implement other recommendations in the report. The new hire would work with student groups to address alcohol and organize dry events, communicate existing University policies, rework the role of tutors and proctors and improve coordination for large-scale events like the Harvard-Yale Game...