Article: At the center of the health-care question resides Ted Kennedy. (Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)

WASHINGTON _ The search for the elusive political breakthrough on health reform has cast the Democratic party's leading liberal in the role of patient pragmatist. 
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., listens stoically _ sometimes with a faint smile _ as Republicans on his Senate Labor Committee trash his health-care proposal. A casserole made from leftovers, one GOP senator calls it. A pasteurized blueprint for socialized medicine, scoffs another. 
And then they go and make deals with chairman Kennedy. 
Most Americans know Ted Kennedy as the reigning patriarch of the first family of national politics. 
He appears on the scene when the Kennedy clan is in crisis: ...

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