Proviso comments

Typical triage tag. Note 'tear-off' sections f...
The medical kind
Mary Mitchell faces a problem in her own town, and she’s not so sure those Proviso East expellees didn’t deserve it.
As harsh as that is, it may be the only way to keep Proviso East from succumbing to the problems that have ruined some Chicago public schools.
And the school board president defends triage in solving social problems.
“[T]hese [expellees] are not the students that we should be focusing our resources on. There are 5,000 other students who are coming to school. We are not going to tolerate the kind of violence that was displayed in this case.”
Limited resources.  What do you know?

Con brio

American writer and editor Peter Beinart, of T...
Peter

A peek inside the storied beltway:

[TRB writer, New Republic, Peter] Beinart is well known among Washington journalists as a quick-witted polemicist and a gifted stylist. He’s also regarded as one of the most energetic careerists anyone has ever seen.

Not that there’s anything wrong with that! Banish careerists from the ranks of Washington journalism and the only people left would be a handful of newsroom librarians and a couple of copy editors from Human Events.

A hit, a palpable hit!