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...this plan turns on the actions of just a few individuals. Wilson may never be more than a footnote in the story of how Barack Obama passed health-care reform, but so much of the outcome will be determined by equally unlikely heroes. Who would have imagined that Max Baucus, the fiscally conservative Democratic senator from Montana, would one day be leading Democratic efforts in the upper chamber? Or that Kathleen Sebelius, a former governor of Kansas, would effectively serve as the White House’s health-care czar? Both of those jobs had been more or less reserved...
...didn't take long the next day for the reality to set in that not much about the game had really changed. "Every day," Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, who is leading bipartisan talks, said with a sigh, "we get a little closer. And I mean it." (See 10 players in health-care reform...
...past] we haven’t proven that we’re one of those [elite] teams,” Voith said. “But that’s what we want to do, starting this weekend.”—Staff writer Max N. Brondfield can be reached at mbrondf@fas.harvard.edu...
...season. Harvard earned a 2-1 advantage early, but the Redlands squad settled into a rhythm, riding a 15-4 edge in ejections to a 9-3 halftime lead.Seven different players tallied goals for the Crimson—including co-captains Atkinson, junior Bret Voith, and freshman utility man Max Eliot—but Harvard could not close the gap.Senior goalkeeper Nikhil Balaraman notched seven saves and five steals in net to finish a promising weekend and provide a rare bright spot for the struggling Crimson.“Nikhil was phenomenal,” Atkinson said...
...Montana's Max Baucus, the top Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, also began circulating a new compromise proposal on Sunday that would include a tax on high-cost, so-called Cadillac insurance plans to help subsidize low-income insurance coverage. Officials who have seen the Baucus plan are refreshingly optimistic, noting that the chairman has moved on some provisions that could make his proposal reconcilable with whatever passes the more liberal House. One key issue is how it deals with government aid to people who do not get health insurance through their employers; those not covered by an expanded...