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...services (dcfs) confirmed that it had received complaints on behalf of the children at 219 three times starting on Nov. 20 but had allowed its field workers to be turned away at the door; now it was investigating its own investigation. At a prayer breakfast last week with Mother Teresa, President Clinton cited headlines about the tragedy and wondered aloud: "Not in Calcutta but Chicago...
...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...
...elements of Magaziner's design in order to win support from Republican Governors. But through it all, Magaziner was upbeat. Clinton, he reported with a tone of mock confidence, was at a prayer breakfast across town with religious leaders. "After 14 hours of protracted negotiations," he joked, "Mother Teresa will not endorse the Cooper bill...
ADMINISTRATION: Alan J. Abrams, Catherine M. Barnes, Denise Brown, Anne M. Considine, Tosca LaBoy, Marilyn V.S. McClenahan, Ann Morrell, Elliot Ravetz, Teresa D. Sedlak, Deborah R. Slater, Marianne Sussman, Raymond Violini...
ADMINISTRATION: Alan J. Abrams, Catherine M. Barnes, Denise Brown, Anne M. Considine, Tosca LaBoy, Marilyn V.S. McClenahan, Ann Morrell, Elliot Ravetz, Teresa D. Sedlak, Deborah R. Slater, Marianne Sussman, Raymond Violini...