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...Calcutta remark was grimly amusing to Alex Kotlowitz, who wrote There Are No Children Here, the 1991 best seller about two children in a Chicago housing project. Kotlowitz notes that Mother Teresa has visited Chicago's underclass -- and was honestly shocked. "We're talking about second and third generations of children growing in communities like this. It's breaking the spiritual back of the people," he says. And each time that particular wheel is rediscovered, he notes, "we say, 'Oh, my God.' And then nothing is done...
...another 1,500 as true or false within the appointed 60-day deadline; 38% of its files were reported as missing key documents. Sterling M. Ryder, head of the social- services agency, admits that his staff should have got to the Keystone kids months ago. And he agrees with Kotlowitz: "The President doesn't understand what the conditions are in the inner cities. In many respects children in the U.S. are in worse shape than children in Third World countries." His voice betrays commitment and real anguish; all that is missing is hope...
...children struggling to survive in the Henry Horner Homes, a violent Chicago housing project. The movie, which will air on ABC in November, is the first serious film from Harpo, Winfrey's production company. It's based on the nonfiction best seller There Are No Children Here by Alex Kotlowitz, which details the life of Rivers and two of her sons, Pharoah and Lafayette. The real Pharoah, now 15, is in the studio today with Kotlowitz, whom he sometimes visits. Pharoah says the set doesn't look much like his former home, and he would have liked to see himself...
...live in the 19 complexes scattered around the city regularly witness random shootings and brutal deaths. One of the first things they learn is to hit the deck when gunfire erupts. Playing in the courtyard of the Henry Horner Homes -- a 21-building project made infamous by Alex Kotlowitz's book There Are No Children Here -- Meeka Boyd, 11, described the shooting of a young man on a basketball court that she saw last year. Her friend Netisha Stroger, also 11, saw a girl shot in the leg on the playground. "When it's real hot out, it's real...
...Some of Kotlowitz's set pieces are fine. Great-Great-Grandfather Eliezar, 104 years old, flatulent, pedantic, almost abstractly randy, argues minutiae of the Talmud with his 75-year-old son and dies one Friday night when he falls asleep and sets fire to himself. Kotlowitz's best creations are the Pilchik sisters, a pair of earthy, lively, possibly stupid originals from Odessa who try to convert Mendel to socialism. They disappear into the larger historical drama of the October Revolution with an over-the-shoulder verdict that Mendel "is not a serious...