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DIED. Raymond Shafer, 89, former Pennsylvania Governor; in Meadville, Pa. He chaired Richard Nixon's Commission on Marijuana and Drug Abuse--which stunned Nixon by recommending legalizing pot in small amounts. Shafer was nicknamed Dudley Do-Right for well-intentioned efforts that sometimes got him in trouble.
Identity theft is a growth industry, and thieves get more inventive every year. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) counted 255,000 identity-theft complaints last year, up 3% from 2004, although most occurrences never get reported. The FTC estimates 9 million Americans got hit last year, with losses totaling $56.6...
*To introduce more competition, diversity and dynamism to the nation's schools, the commission proposes that schools be run by independent contractors - in some cases groups of teachers - who agree to meet requirements set and measured by the district or else lose the contract. Parents would choose the school their...
Nonetheless, some of the commission's more radical ideas are already being implemented in districts around the country. Commission member Joel Klein, chancellor of the New York City school system, points out that New York already has a number of independent contractors running 322 of its schools and holds them...
The commission itself does not imagine that its ideas will be embraced with speedy enthusiasm. "This kind of change," said Tucker, "will take 15 years of hard work to implement." The point, says Klein, is not whether the commission got every detail right, but that the nation needs "a significant...