Ssshh! Over there! I’ve almost got it cornered! Prospectus for an August poetry workshop in north-suburban Winnetka: “This workshop will focus on close scrutiny as a means to pursue a poem in hiding and coax it onto the page.”
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“What has been good about probation?” says Robert Gutter, principal of Wright Elementary School in Humboldt Park (Catalyst, June). “I don’t have to twist my staff’s arms, and I can demand more from them. We know we are all being held accountable.”
Predictions to file. “Success of the campaign against tobacco would mean open season on the manufacturers of everything from bicycles and swimming pools to paint and pesticides,” argued Joseph Bast in “Heartlander” (June), the monthly newsletter of the libertarian Palatine-based Heartland Institute, just before the proposed settlement between state attorneys general and the industry was announced. “All of these things pose small risks to users who are not careful, in return for large social benefits. Each is more or less legally protected now thanks to the presumption of self-responsibility.”
