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Ending several weeks of media scrutiny and speculation, the Business School yesterday officially released a draft version of a plan to restructure its flagship MBA program...
...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...
Most sitcoms are run by committee; the writers get together regularly to revise or "punch up" scripts. Not on Seinfeld. David and Seinfeld themselves write the last draft of every script. Sitting at abutting desks in David's office, they labor over The Barber for three days. The clock is ticking. Seinfeld's weekly production cycle starts on Wednesday and ends with a Tuesday-night taping. But this week's script won't be ready until Saturday -- inordinately late. Even with the taping pushed back to Wednesday, the cast and crew will have to work all weekend...
...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...