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...clear." Many parents have been pressuring doctors to try hormone therapy on children who are not abnormally short. One physician recalls a father who asked if his tall son could be made even taller so he would be sure to make the Notre Dame football team. Says Dr. Joseph Gertner, program director of the Pediatric Clinical Research Center at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center: "As people realize that they have control over certain aspects of their appearance, as with orthodontia, nose jobs and breast jobs, those people concerned about stature will want to have therapy...
...pressures fuel the desire to reach a greater height. Study after study has found that taller people achieve more success in business and have an easier time socially. Aware of this research, an author of how-to-succeed- in-business books who wanted his son to be taller asked Gertner for help. Argued the author: "I'd rather my son be 5 ft. 10 and a graduate of N.Y.U.'s business school than 5 ft. 6 and a Harvard Business School graduate. These extra 4 in. in height make much more difference in terms of success in a business career...
...Gertner cautions that the hardest choice when suing Harvard is to decide whether to file in state or federal court. "The federal bench has a large number of Harvard graduates," Gertner said. "What will someone educated at Harvard Law School and Harvard College feel about this case? You need to take that into account...
...impending Dalton decision on whether to sue and the Jackson case come at a time when other universities are facing more discrimination suits, Gertner said. She said the suits are the product of the decreasing number of senior-level openings for the women and minorities hired after the first wave of anti-discrimination hiring laws...
...There is a plethora of discrimination cases at this point in our history," Gertner said. "There have been revolving door accusations at most major universities...