People make grim, bitter jokes:
The public-service novice, who has spent her entire career in media and publishing, also dropped jaws at the meeting by likening her task of satisfying space-crunch concerns in every neighborhood to making "many Sophie's Choices" -- a reference to the book in which a mother in the Auschwitz death camp is forced to decide which of her two children will live.
I know what she meant: she has to make impossible decisions, and she feels bad about it. The woman has to meet unlimited and ever-growing needs, with limited and and difficult-to-grow resources. Why anyone expects different is a mystery to me.
But faith in the endless power of public institutions marches on.
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