The Education Commission, on which I serve as a commissioner, advocates for a range of far-reaching transformations to improve education.
This was given bizarre voice by Paul McNutt, President Roosevelt's manpower commissioner, who advocated "the extermination of the Japanese in toto", and practical expression by the obliteration of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
And in Oklahoma, the state health commissioner is advocating pushing up the 23-cent tax to $1.23.
A former state housing commissioner, she advocates demolition of the five-story brick midrises because, she says, many of the property's problems stem from its outmoded, institutional design.
The others are State Representative John Fritchey, who is focusing on the economy and government reform; Patrick O'Connor, an alderman and ally of Mr. Daley; and Mike Quigley, a Cook County commissioner who advocates government reform and has been endorsed by The Chicago Tribune and Sun-Times.
Parks Commissioner Henry J. Stern advocates the inclusion of a life-size sculpture of a water buffalo with a Vietnamese child astride it, to convey what he said would be "a particular sense of time and place not normally found in commemorative statuary".
A spokesman for the commissioner's office declined to comment on Sunday about why the commissioner's office advocated on Ortiz's behalf.
At the annual tripartite consultations on resettlement held in Geneva recently, UNHCR high commissioner António Guterres advocated an increase in resettlement numbers; he also said local UNHCR offices should be held accountable for meeting their resettlement targets.
And it drew lukewarm support from one of the most important voices in the debate, Michael J. Copps, an F.C.C. commissioner, who has advocated stricter regulation and whose vote the chairman will need in order to get an order approved by a majority vote of the five-member commission.
Commissioner Rob Manfred has advocated extending the draft to cover players such as Moncada, and the owners are expected to propose an international draft next year, when they negotiate a new labor agreement.
