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Empowered by Bove's bravery, I called Nancy Izquierdo at McDonald's corporate communications, who told me the company stopped counting on April 14, 1994, when, at the shady sounding, acronym-needy McDonald's Biennial Worldwide Convention, then chairman Michael Quinlan announced that the company had passed the 100-billion-burgers mark and somehow missed it. Deciding to focus on the future, he advised the 25,000 franchise owners to switch to the Carl Saganesque "billions and billions." I didn't buy one word of it. So I stopped at my McDonald's on 34th Street in Manhattan, which...
SENTENCED. AWILDA LOPEZ, 29, to 15 years to life in prison for the murder of her six-year-old daughter, ELISA IZQUIERDO. Elisa's death, after years of sexual and physical abuse, attracted attention to the failings of the child-welfare system...
...seat-belt, drunk-driving and environmental movements, all of which have changed the way Americans live--the children's movement is more like a series of spasms than a focused, well-coordinated effort. True, when a Polly Klaas or Megan Kanka is abducted and murdered, or when Elisa Izquierdo falls through the gaping holes in New York City's social-services system, outraged parents and community leaders can rear up, roar and carry the day for "three strikes" or Megan's Law. And in the endless wrangle over welfare reform, which hit the headlines again last week, children have proved...
...WOULD THINK OUR WORLD COULD never produce such a horrible story as the one about young Elisa Izquierdo, who was beaten to death by her mother Awilda Lopez [COVER STORIES, Dec. 11]. Surely all who read about her will wonder how anyone could be so cruel and inhuman. The answer is simple: drug abuse and lack of personal responsibility. That child should have been taken permanently from her mother at birth, when it was clear that Lopez was unfit to care for Elisa. Until we clean the streets of drugs and hold people responsible for their actions, these pathetic tales...
CORRESPONDENT ELAINE RIVERA had a problem. She needed to talk to people who knew six-year-old Elisa Izquierdo, a victim of child abuse, whose death in New York City became a symbol of America's deeply flawed child-welfare system. Under deadline pressure, Rivera needed to move quickly, so she turned for help to TIME's in-house research center. Using a CD-ROM directory, the staff was able to supply Rivera with a list of people who live in Izquierdo's apartment building. The results of her interviews appeared in last week's cover story...