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...Justices struck a blow for private schools Thursday by upholding a Cleveland, Ohio voucher policy. The program allows taxpayer money earmarked for substandard public schools to follow students who transfer to private or charter schools - even if those schools are religious in nature. The majority determined the program does not violate the constitutional separation of church and state, because it does not dictate which schools can receive the funding, but simply creates opportunities for students to get a better education at any school. Those who oppose the program argue that religious schools take advantage of the program far more than...
DIED. LEW WASSERMAN, 89, the last of Hollywood's legendary movie moguls, who headed up MCA, the parent company of Universal Pictures, for four decades; in Beverly Hills, Calif. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Wasserman worked nights as a movie usher in high school. After impressing an MCA executive while promoting talent for a Cleveland nightclub, Wasserman was hired and went on to represent such clients as Marilyn Monroe, Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Stewart. Fiercely protective of his stars, Wasserman kept Clark Gable's drunk-driving arrest and Betty Grable's premarital pregnancy out of the papers. He revolutionized the film...
...Angeles the school board voted to explore alternatives to--and possibly abandon--California's state test, the Stanford 9; San Francisco is weighing a similar measure. School officials in Cleveland, Ohio, dropped from 16 to 13 the number of tests required from kindergarten through eighth grade. And in Nebraska, a state with an unusual assessment system that mixes state exams with more flexible local tests, the education commissioner, Doug Christensen, says he's convinced he can comply with the No Child Left Behind Act and maintain the state's current testing program. "We're hoping...
Chaka?fighting writer, Japan aficionado and Cleveland native?is back in the land of the rising sun for Isaac Adamson's second hard-boiled mystery, Hokkaido Popsicle (HarperPerennial; 329 pages). Banished to the northern island's remote Hotel Kitty for punching a film director in the face, Chaka is left to analyze the innermost thoughts of his roommate, a "six-pound female Japanese bobcat of distinguished-merit parentage" before an elderly porter abruptly keels over in his room. That same night, Yoshimura ("Yoshi") Fukuzatsu, leader of Japan's most popular rock band, turns up dead in a run-down Tokyo...
CONVICTED. JAMES A. TRAFICANT JR., 60, flamboyant Ohio Congressman known for punctuating his raucous floor speeches with "Beam me up!"; of 10 federal charges, including bribery, racketeering, tax evasion and obstruction of justice; in Cleveland. The nine-term Democrat, who does not have a law degree, represented himself in court, clashed frequently with the judge and now faces up to 63 years in prison...