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July 2008
- Hatch Pens Ditty for Teddy
  
  newser | Boston Globe | Jul 16, 08 3:53 PM CDT
  
  Orrin Hatch is not only a veteran senator but also a songwriter, and he’s put pen to paper again—this time for longtime friend Ted Kennedy, who’s battling cancer. The Utah Republican was approached by several senior Democrats, and the resulting song, Headed Home, could be played at the Democratic convention next month as a symbol of bipartisan unity, the Boston Globe reports. More »
  
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  Congress • Democratic National Convention • Ted Kennedy • conservative • liberal • Edward Kennedy • Orrin Hatch
- Kennedy Returns to Senate
  
  newser | CNN | Jul 9, 08 4:01 PM CDT
  
  Edward Kennedy returned to the Senate today for the first time since his surgery for brain cancer to cast a vote on Medicare legislation, CNN reports. Fellow senators greeted him with a long standing ovation. Kennedy, 76, made a thumbs-up gesture after casting his vote with a loud "aye." His vote helped Democrats break a GOP filibuster and overturn a 10% cut in Medicare payments to doctors. More »
  
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  Senate • Ted Kennedy • Medicare • brain cancer
- Kennedy Doing Well, Wife Reports
  
  newser | Associated Press | Jul 7, 08 4:05 PM CDT
  
  Ted Kennedy is responding well to cancer treatment, according to his wife, Vicki. Although he's experiencing some fatigue—a “word that has never been in Teddy’s vocabulary before”—he is exercising every morning and sailing nearly every day. The venerable senator is halfway through 6 weeks of radiation and chemotherapy, the AP reports. More »
  
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  Ted Kennedy • brain cancer • sailing • radiation • chemotherapy • Victoria Reggie Kennedy
June 2008
- Caroline's Support of Obama Wise Move for the Kennedys
  
  newser | New Republic | Jun 26, 08 7:55 PM CDT
  
  No doubt the endorsements of Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg and her uncle were a major boon for Barack Obama, but Michelle Cottle writes in the New Republic that the union may have been “an even shrewder move” for Caroline. JFK's daughter, long the “anthologist of family memories,” has seen the Kennedy name fade over the years. Hitching “her clan’s wagon to the hottest political star” in a blue moon was “genius.” More »
  
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  Barack Obama • Ted Kennedy • John F. Kennedy • Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg
- How Congress Can Help Ted Kennedy
  
  newser | Wall Street Journal | Jun 11, 08 8:00 AM CDT
  
  Ted Kennedy has, at best, about two years to live. A drug exists that might extend his life, but Kennedy, and legions of other cancer sufferers, won’t get it because it hasn’t been through Phase III FDA trials. But congress could yet come to the rescue; a bill recently introduced in the Senate would give the terminally ill access to unproven treatments. More »
  
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  drugs • FDA • Ted Kennedy • brain cancer • pharmaceutical • clinical trials • experimental drugs
- Kennedy Back Home in Mass. After Surgery
  
  newser | WBZ 4 | Jun 9, 08 12:09 PM CDT
  
  Sen. Ted Kennedy returned to his Massachusetts home today, a week after undergoing a chancy surgery to remove part of a malignant brain tumor, WBZ-TV reports. The Democrat's plane landed at a Cape Cod airport around 11:30 this morning, the Boston Globe adds; Kennedy, 76, told reporters it was “good to be home." More »
  
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  Barack Obama • Senate • United States • Ted Kennedy • brain cancer • Cape Cod • Duke University Medical Center.
- What Obama, Clinton Don't Get
  
  newser | Time | Jun 4, 08 1:29 PM CDT
  
  Mark Halperin runs down what Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton aren’t counting on the day after the nomination was secured: For Obama: How intensely Clintonites feel about Hillary. Delaying his VP pick will only exacerbate the Obama-Clinton scrutiny. The sensitivity of the former first couple. The intense scrutiny he'll now face. How much distaste Camp McCain has for him. How the GOP has been waiting for this moment. How November will be about challenges facing the next prez. More »
  
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  Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • John McCain • Ted Kennedy • Bob Dole • general election
- If Brain Surgeons Only Use Their Cells on Speaker ...
  
  newser | New York Times | Jun 3, 08 2:13 PM CDT
  
  Experts, including the American Cancer Society, say cell-phone use doesn’t increase the risk of cancer. So why do three prominent neurosurgeons avoid holding phones up to their ears? The debate has been reopened, the New York Times reports, by the surgeons’ recent comments on CNN and by Ted Kennedy’s diagnosis with a type of tumor critics associate with cell phones. More »
  
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  cell phones • cancer • Ted Kennedy • cancer research • Sanjay Gupta • Vini Khurana
- 'Recuperating Well,' Kennedy Is Up and About
  
  newser | Boston Globe | Jun 3, 08 12:29 PM CDT
  
  Sen. Ted Kennedy is "recuperating well" after yesterday's surgery on his brain tumor, the Boston Globe reports. The 76-year-old Democrat was "walking the hallways, spending time with family, and actively keeping up with the news of the day," his office said today, following yesterday's 3½-hour procedure at Duke University Medical Center. More »
  
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  Ted Kennedy • surgery • brain cancer • glioma • Duke University Medical Center.
- Ted Kennedy to Undergo Brain Surgery Today
  
  newser | CNN | Jun 2, 08 6:48 AM CDT
  
  Ted Kennedy will undergo brain surgery this morning at Duke University Medical Center to treat his malignant tumor, CNN reports. Afterwards, he will begin chemotherapy, but he doesn’t expect it to sideline him for long. “After completing treatment, I look forward to returning to the United States Senate and to doing everything I can to help elect Barack Obama as our next president,” the senator said in a statement. More »
  
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  Ted Kennedy • neurology • tumor • Edward Kennedy • brain surgery
May 2008
- Smart, Capable, and in Control
  
  newser | Washington Post | May 30, 08 6:33 PM CDT
  
  She whipped Ted Kennedy's staff into action after his seizure; she brought the family to his bedside; she allowed the aging senator, diagnosed with brain cancer, to join in the traditional Cape Cod regatta on Memorial Day weekend. Victoria Reggie Kennedy, his wife of 16 years, is right by his side, the Boston Globe reports. And he wants her to replace him as senator, says the New York Daily News . More »
  
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  Senate • Ted Kennedy • Massachusetts • brain cancer • Camelot • Victoria Reggie Kennedy
- 'On-Form' Kennedy Grabs 2nd Place in Regatta
  
  newser | Boston Herald | May 27, 08 4:48 AM CDT
  
  Ted Kennedy didn't miss the start of the sailing season, despite his recent diagnosis of brain cancer, reports the Boston Herald . The senator made a surprise decision to compete in the last leg of the Figawi regatta off Cape Cod, and guided his schooner into second place. Family and friends said Kennedy was his usual self—and is looking forward to competing next year. More »
  
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  Ted Kennedy • Massachusetts • brain cancer • sailing • Cape Cod
- Obama Takes Message of Hope to Wesleyan
  
  newser | Politico | May 25, 08 4:56 PM CDT
  
  Barack Obama stepped in for Ted Kennedy to deliver Wesleyan University’s commencement address today, and urged graduates to look beyond "our money culture" to a higher cause. “There is nothing naïve about your impulse to change this world,” Obama told the 800 graduates and guests gathered at the small, Connecticut liberal arts college. More »
  
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  Barack Obama • Ted Kennedy • commencement speech • college graduates
- Landing Obama Last Minute Has Wesleyan Scurrying
  
  newser | Hartford Courant (Conn.) | May 23, 08 2:55 PM CDT
  
  Wesleyan University is happy that ailing Ted Kennedy found someone to take his place as commencement speaker Sunday, the Hartford Courant reports—though the fact that it's Barack Obama has created some logistical issues on the small Connecticut campus. "It'll be pretty crazy," an administrator says of the event, usually open to the public but rarely bringing the kind of crowds the Democratic front-runner tends to draw. More »
  
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  Barack Obama • Obama 2008 • election • college • Ted Kennedy • Barack Obama supporters • commencement speech
- Teddy's Mantle Looks Tailored for Hillary
  
  newser | Politico | May 22, 08 6:46 PM CDT
  
  Though Ted Kennedy helped crush her presidential dreams by endorsing her rival, writes Eamon Javers in Politico, Hillary Clinton may find he ultimately gives her the job she’s made for: his. Kennedy has been the Senate’s center of Democratic gravity since his own White House bid failed in 1980, and with his career perhaps at an end, it’s “striking” to note the parallels. More »
  
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  Hillary Clinton • Senate • Ted Kennedy • lions
- Feisty Kennedy Goes Sailing
  
  newser | Boston Globe | May 22, 08 6:34 AM CDT
  
  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.” More »
  
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  cancer • Ted Kennedy • Massachusetts • tumor • sailing • Cape Cod
- The Youngest Brother Is His Own Man
  
  newser | Washington Post | May 21, 08 2:24 PM CDT
  
  Ted Kennedy's malignant brain tumor adds yet another chapter to the tragic epic of the Kennedy clan, Robert Kaiser writes in the Washington Post . The youngest of Joe Kennedy's sons got a huge boost from his older brothers when he entered politics, Kaiser notes, but he built his legacy of different stuff than theirs—not so much brilliance and charisma, but effectiveness, admired on both sides of the aisle, at making government work. More »
  
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  Senate • Ted Kennedy • John F. Kennedy • senator • brain cancer • tumor • Robert F. Kennedy
- Hillary Will Win Huge Leverage in Narrow Defeat
  
  newser | Chicago Tribune | May 21, 08 10:09 AM CDT
  
  It doesn’t look like Hillary Clinton will be the Dem nominee this year, but she “may gain more leverage from losing than almost any other failed presidential candidate,” says Michael Tackett in a Chicago Tribune piece about what’s in store for the second-place finisher. Assuming she is a “vigorous campaigner” for Obama in the fall and repairs rifts, she'll soon look more like Ted Kennedy than John Kerry. More »
  
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  Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • Democratic nomination • John Kerry • Ted Kennedy • female voters • Hubert Humphrey
- Kennedy Leaves Hospital
  
  newser | CNN | May 21, 08 9:27 AM CDT
  
  Ted Kennedy waved to well-wishers and gave a smiling thumbs-up as he left Massachusetts General Hospital and headed for home this morning, a day after the discovery of a malignant brain tumor. “Senator Kennedy has recovered remarkably quickly from his Monday procedure and therefore will be released from the hospital today ahead of schedule,” his doctors said in a statement. The senator will recuperate in his Cape Cod home while doctors devise a treatment plan. More »
  
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  cancer • Ted Kennedy • Massachusetts • tumor • brain cancer
- Praising Kennedy, Byrd Breaks Down
  
  newser | Politico | May 20, 08 5:05 PM CDT
  
  Robert Byrd echoed their Senate colleagues' good wishes for Ted Kennedy as he spoke on the floor of the chamber this afternoon, then broke down as he delivered a tribute to his ailing friend, Politico reports. "Ted, Ted, my dear friend, I love you, and I miss you," the longest-serving Senator, 90, said from his wheelchair. More »
  
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  Senate • cancer • Ted Kennedy • Robert Byrd

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