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...ceremony yesterday, the Beijing branch of the Chinese Writers Association (CWA) donated about 500 books by 240 authors from across China to the Harvard-Yenching Library...
...CWA's U.S. branch, headquartered in West Haven, Conn., coordinated the donation. Similar gifts will go to Columbia University and Yale University during the next two weeks...
REGARDLESS OF THE SHORTCOMINGS OF the CWA, I place most of the blame for Elisa's death on people in the neighborhood who knew this family. Awilda Lopez, a brutish beast of a woman who unmercifully abused Elisa and beat her to death, could not have got away with this if someone had stopped by to question and report her as many times as was necessary to get the child away from her mother. We are all our brothers' and sisters' keepers. We cannot wait for someone else to do the right thing. If we see something that is wrong...
THANK YOU FOR PUBLISHING LITTLE Elisa's sad story and for exposing the grave injustice that agencies such as the Child Welfare Administration in New York City do little children. The cwa is not held accountable for its actions or failure to act. It is time that such agencies and the courts broadened their awareness to include what is really important: a child's best interests. Elisa, a youngster with the potential for a bright future, could be alive today if someone had cared enough. Why do we reunite children with their families when we know the youngsters...
What the public could surmise, however, was that something was amiss. Last week someone leaked an Oct. 10 letter from CWA commissioner Croft to Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, complaining that city staff cuts make it impossible for her to train child-abuse caseworkers or even measure their competence. And that is the least of it. The city, state and Federal Government have cut one-sixth from CWA's $1.2 billion budget. While Croft estimates her average staff member's case load at 16.9, some workers at the agency's Queens branch put theirs at 25, a number that almost precludes meaningful...