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...Levenson Awards and convinced Harvard to maintain summer storage. One of the UC’s sweetest successes during its first five years was the addition of chocolate milk to dining hall machines. Alas, it also had to deal with drier administrative issues like Ad Board and calendar reform. In 1995, the UC began popular presidential elections, and students voiced their desire for more on-campus comforts. For example, the administration of Beth A. Stewart ’00 saw the start of Fly-By and cable in house common rooms. Since spinning off the planning of campus social events...
...There's an inevitability to health-care reform," Tom Daschle said, the first time I ever heard him talk about the subject. "The question is, how good will it be?" That was on Dec. 14, 1993, when Daschle was still a relatively junior member of the Senate. He was standing before a skeptical business group in Watertown, S.D., trying to explain the complicated plan that First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton had put together back in Washington...
...Fifteen years later, major health-care reform still hasn't happened, but Daschle is now well positioned to change that as President-elect Barack Obama's reported pick for Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS). The former Senate Democratic leader has an understanding of the nation's health-care problem that comes not just from Senate hearing rooms or staff briefings. Daschle has seen, as few in Washington have, the particular toll that the broken system has taken on rural America. When I went to South Dakota 15 years ago to do a story on the problem, Daschle drove...
...elect is more interested in building bridges than tearing them down. Reid himself underscored that theme at a press conference following the caucus meeting in which members voted 42-13 to allow Lieberman to remain in the caucus and to keep his chairmanship of the Homeland Security and Government Reform committees - though they stripped him of his seat on the Environment and Public Works Committee. "I would defy anyone to be more angry than I was," says Reid. "But I also believe that if you look at the problems we face as a nation, is this a time we walk...
...running for President that we're getting, or the McCain free from the shackles of running for President. We think it's the latter," says a Democratic official. "McCain becomes a power center. The fact is, we don't have 60 votes [in the Senate]. Barack is of a reform mind, and so is McCain. And you can cut through a lot of the crap if they work together...