Now that’s what I call patience. From the Trust for Public Land’s January 5 issue of the “Chicago News Bulletin” (www.tpl.org): “Nearly 40 years after Chinatown’s only public park was demolished to make way for the Dan Ryan Expressway, the South Side neighborhood is celebrating the creation of a six-acre jewel–Ping Tom Memorial Park.”
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Accountability = caring. “I started teaching in the Chicago Public Schools when I was 19, and I’m 73 now,” says Barbara Sizemore, dean emeritus of the DePaul University School of Education (Catalyst, February). “Nobody gave a damn whether African-American children learned anything. For me, this [accountability] is wonderful. I can hardly believe that I’m living in this time, where people care whether African-American kids can read.”
A third way. Martin Marty quotes Bryan Magee’s new book Confessions of a Philosopher in “Context” (March 1): “It seems to me that most people tend either to believe that all reality is in principle knowable or to believe that there is a religious dimension to things. A third alternative–that we can know very little but have equally little ground for religious belief–receives scant consideration, and yet seems to me to be where the truth lies.”
bans on human cloning, paid surrogate motherhood, genetic enhancement, and sex selection for nonmedical purposes. In the United States, however, the dominant social value can be described as ‘show me the money.’”
