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Feisty Kennedy Goes Sailing

Posted May 22, 08 6:34 AM CDT in Politics 

(Newser) – Just a few hours after leaving the hospital where he was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor, Ted Kennedy set sail off Cape Cod with his wife and their dogs, the Boston Globe reports. The senator-turned-skipper took his 50-foot schooner for a two-hour voyage on the Nantucket Sound. “It was wonderful to be on the water," the senator said on his return to the dock. "It's all it takes.”

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Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., left, and his wife Victoria Reggie Kennedy, walk along a private pier with two family dogs as they return from sailing off the coast of Hyannisport, Mass., Wednesday.   (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy and his wife Victoria Reggie Kennedy wave toward members of the media as they arrive by car at the Kennedy family's compound, in Hyannisport, Mass., Wednesday, May 21, 2008.   (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., left, guides a sailboat up to a pier in Hyannisport, Mass., with his wife Victoria Reggie Kennedy, right, off the coast of Hyannisport, Mass., Wednesday, May 21, 2008.   (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., right, and his wife Victoria Reggie Kennedy, left, go for a walk with two dogs at the Kennedy family's compound, in Hyannisport, Mass., Wednesday, May 21, 2008.   (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
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