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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...
Investigative reporting is Carroll's passion, and with 40 years of experience in newspapers and a nine-year stint on the Pulitzer Prize Board, he has a fine-tuned instinct for spotting prizewinning potential--stories that he calls bell ringers. These, he says, are pieces that require in-depth reporting, have universal resonance and "tell me something I didn't know." His staffs won three Pulitzers while he was editor in Lexington and Baltimore, and since arriving at the Times, Carroll has helped line edit four stories that won Pulitzers--including an expose of unsafe prescription drugs, whose opening paragraphs...
Kent Haruf's previous novel wasn't just a book. It was a cause. When Plainsong was published five years ago, its gentle but indelible tale of people getting through life on the high plains of Colorado was adopted with a passion by independent booksellers, the same ones who had pushed Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain up the best-seller list. They did the trick for Plainsong too, which eventually was also nominated for a National Book Award...
...thing that struck me about the game was the passion of the South Korean fans. Their team only scored 10 baskets in 60 minutes, but when the Koreans scored, the crowd went nuts. I mean, bananas. The horns went off. A huge South Korean flag that was being held by five rows of people would shake furiously. Streamers, pennants and towels waved. An entire section of the crowd partied like it was 1996. And the Koreans lost...
...That was a clear case of rewriting history, and we Jews have suffered terribly as a result. Jesus would overturn the tables of the Hollywood money changers in shock and anger if he knew what a travesty had been made of his life in Mel Gibson's film The Passion of the Christ. DAVID ZOHAR Jerusalem...