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Finances, however, have little to do with Klein's passion for the measure. Like Janet and Jerry Zucker, Katie's parents and the initiative's other chief organizers, Klein is the father of a diabetic, Jordan, 13. In addition, his mother, 84, has Alzheimer's. Distraught at the federal cutoff of stem-cell research, Klein and the Zuckers, who are Los Angeles film producers, were brought together last year by the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, one of the nation's most forceful disease-advocacy groups. They hired a clutch of sophisticated lawyers and political consultants to draft the measure...
...cutoff for the NIT would be [an RPI of] 150,” said Harvard coach Frank Sullivan. “Because of their strength of schedule [and an RPI of 110]...they do have a chance...
...Other schools, even of our caliber, don’t have to deal with the 1 a.m. cutoff. It hurts our standing with the other schools,” Bercu said. “Harvard likes to be competitive in academics and extracurriculars, and social life is another areas to be competitive...
While honors is currently rewarded according to a GPA cutoff, according to Feldman, the plan to switch it to a University-wide percent quota of 60 percent may encourage instructors to inflate individual grades in hopes of garnering more honors for their students...
...History professor Bernard Bailyn turns 70 just months before the January cutoff. He retires to emeritus status, but continues to teach and write...