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...Edelman's currency is facts, mountains of data that tell the story of what is happening to children. The C.D.F. annually turns out more than 2,000 pages of reports, which she uses to put pressure on Congress -- apparently with great success. Senator Edward Kennedy described Edelman as the "101st Senator on children's issues." Said Kennedy: "She has real power in Congress and uses it brilliantly...
Other runners for the Crimson were Katie Toner (66th, 18:08.73), Tina Lount (101st, 18:31.41), Lise Vansen (145th, 19:00.05), Eva Klohnen (152nd, 19:06.45) and Michelle Sang (168th...
...intellectual and appears unreflective. "Clearly, he's not a great thinker," says one longtime Massachusetts political observer. "But he makes up for it by doing." A close friend notes, "He's incredibly competitive. Imagine racing him in a 100-yard dash with a brick wall at the 101st yard. I'd start slowing down at the 90th yard, but Joe will run full tilt to win the race, even though he is certain to hit the wall...
...parts of Ozone Park, Gotti is a folk hero. He lives in Howard Beach, a few miles away, in an unpretentious, tree-shaded house. On a corner of 101st Avenue, a few blocks down from the Bergen Hunt and Fish Club, Connie, a school crossing guard, has been escorting children across the same street for ten years. "People here look up to him," she says of Gotti. "As soon as you mention his name, he gets respect. As far as I'm concerned, they're crucifying him." A young mother in a powder blue jumpsuit, who is picking...
...seek convictions for the sake of convictions, as if scoring points in some game. It's a balancing act between the claims of justice and civilized society's proclivity for compassion. You don't lock someone up because you can." But the woman who once walked to school along 101st Avenue does not have much compassion for the men who hung around the Bergen Hunt and Fish Club; she wants to lock up John Gotti not because she can, but because he deserves...