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...complexity and confusion, though, delivery of the draft bill marked what Budget Director Leon Panetta, borrowing a line from Winston Churchill, called "the end of the beginning" in the great national-health- care debate. For months that debate has focused on ideas, generalities, trial balloons, leaked outlines. Now it can zero in on the specifications of an actual draft bill. Not necessarily one bearing much resemblance to what Congress may eventually pass, however. Said Senate Republican leader Robert Dole: "I'm willing to wager that the final product will be considerably different from any bill that has been proposed...
...sense, the compromising started while the bill was still being written. As presented in Statuary Hall, it contained many changes from a preliminary draft that had leaked seven weeks earlier. Most were minor: at a briefing for journalists, one Administration aide even fretted that "we've got 200 reporters here and no story." That, however, was an exaggeration. Though they left the main outlines of the Administration's approach intact, the changes did signal White House willingness to make adjustments to respond to specific criticisms...
...Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League named Musselman its pitcher of the year for his 9-2 record, and a few weeks after the season the Toronto Blue Jays picked the southpaw in the sixth round of the draft...
With the Crimson's season-opening exhibition against the University of New Brunswick on tap tonight at 7 p.m. (can it be so soon?), I still don't know. Izzy was drafted a couple of rounds higher in the NHL entry draft, so the pros might be a little higher on him. But because most scouts knew they were each going to stay in Cambridge, that's not a fair call...
...document, which will be presented in draft form for approval by the full Faculty, is the first official report to explain why Harvard needs a campaign, according to Secretary to the Faculty Council John B. Fox '59. The campaign, with an expected target of about &2 billion, will be officially launched...