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...Children's Defense Fund works to fix this disconnect between what Americans say they want for children and what they actually do for them. With offices just a few blocks from Capitol Hill, the Defense Fund stands out among youth advocacy groups for its Washington-based organization and strategic coalitions, its many alliances with state and local groups, and its many service-oriented programs. In the District of Columbia, the Defense Fund has established City Lights, which works with severely troubled adolescents. At what was once the Tennessee farm of Roots author Alex Haley, the Fund conducts leadership training sessions...
...April. Impassioned fans of the home page noticed the absence and E-mailed the White House, leading to the return of the features last week. Says Frank Reeder, director of the White House Office of Administration: "Occasionally we lapse into human frailty and make mistakes. When we do, we fix them...
...become a reliable pattern in American politics that when the plumbing breaks down, the superintendents appear promptly to fix it. Progressives in the teens and '20s tried to clean up the electoral process with the secret ballot and the direct election of Senators. In the 1960s smoke-filled rooms gave way to primary beauty pageants, and after Watergate, big-money contributors had to form PACs instead of flushing money directly to their candidates. The avowed goal is always the same: to ensure communion between the voters and their leaders...
...taken up by the melodrama of whether the mayor may be slipping back into drugs and alcohol--all because of the pressure. Many have forgotten that the pressure has been brought on by the mayor himself. It was Barry who did much to get the city into the fix it's in. His departure announcement was full of self-pity, and as he disembarked from the plane at his second retreat in St. Louis, Missouri, he was reading an open Bible. Unfortunately, there's no place for citizens to seek "physical and spiritual renewal." We're stuck here with...
...people who commissioned the survey will say the question was routine. They'll say that at a staff meeting the survey manager made his usual assignments: "Ed, you do angry white males. Mac, try to get a fix on which way the abortion issue cuts. Sandy, take a look at how the flying-saucer vote is breaking down...