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...ARENA: Joe Klein on Kerry's calculated silence on Iraq...
...that the situation is infinitely elastic. You start by applying it to a terrorist suspect, and soon you're applying it to his next-door neighbor who perhaps might know something." --With reporting by Timothy J. Burger, Massimo Calabresi, Michael Duffy, Viveca Novak, Elaine Shannon and Douglas Waller/Washington; Aharon Klein and Matt Rees/Jerusalem; Joseph Szczesny/Detroit; and Julie Rawe and Claudia Wallis/New York
...third of its biotech companies. The bond initiative, if it passes, would pay to build 12 to 15 new stem-cell research centers, a massive magnet for scientific talent. "California will be the center of stem-cell research for the world," predicts Palo Alto real estate developer Robert Klein, co-chairman of the initiative campaign. Klein, who has contributed $1.4 million of his money toward the effort, touts the economic benefits, forecasting $70 million in tax revenues from new jobs even before any cures are discovered. And if cures are found, the profits would accrue to California companies, along with...
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...
...ARENA: Joe Klein on how Bush is blinded by righteousness...