Swords into plowshares. An architectural jury commented on the reclamation of a Forest Park torpedo-factory-turned-mall for use as a 2,500-seat worship hall for the Living Word Christian Center (“Focus,” November): “This project represents a new way of looking at adaptive reuse as well as a new sense of what worship is.”
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How many tens of millions dead would it take? “Like many other communists, I never agreed with the terrible things that happened under that [Soviet] regime,” distinguished historian Eric Hobsbawm says in a recent interview quoted in In These Times (November 27). “But if you think that communism is something greater than the history of the backward countries in which it happened that communists got to power, then that history is not reason enough to abandon the chosen cause.”
“Nearly all Chicago principals began as teachers in the city’s schools, ‘most of which are low performing,’ notes one university professor who works with principals and asked not to be named. ‘They haven’t seen an effective instructional program. How can you supervise a good instructional program if you don’t know what good instruction is?’” So writes Elizabeth Duffrin in a story in the October issue of Catalyst.
