We 'live on in the future we make,' he tells Harvard audience
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Sen. Ted Kennedy was honored with an honorary degree yesterday in a poignant ceremony at Harvard where he spoke of a "renewed" destiny and reminisced about the days when his life of promise stretched before him. Kennedy appeared strong and in high spirits, despite battling brain cancer, reports the Boston Globe . He described his days at Harvard as "fresh as youth and yesterday" when he "learned to play football and believe" in public service.
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Industry claims to be ready to compromise
Wall Street Journal Nov 20, 08 9:33 AM CST
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If health care reform passes this time, a major factor will be that its erstwhile enemies are now rooting for it, the Wall Street Journal reports. An industry roadblock killed the Clinton administration’s attempt in the early 1990s, but this time, insurers are playing ball. “You see a range of diverse stakeholders trying to work together to achieve health care reform,” says a trade-group rep.
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Despite lack of seniority, NY senator has long wanted job
Los Angeles Times Nov 19, 08 11:37 AM CST
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It seems when it rains job offers for Hillary Clinton, it pours: Ted Kennedy has asked the New York senator to help lead a health care team, the Los Angeles Times reports. Clinton would lead a working group dealing with insurance coverage. Although health care is an issue near to her heart, no one is sure how Clinton will react.
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Senator anxious to pass stimulus, health care legislation
Boston Globe Nov 17, 08 1:38 PM CST
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Ted Kennedy returned to the US Senate today, having undergone 6 months of extensive treatment for a brain tumor, the Boston Globe reports. Accompanied by his wife, Vicki, and their dogs, Kennedy was greeted by applause from his family and staff in the Russell Caucus Room under a banner that read “Welcome Back, Senator.”
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OPINION
Don't let economic crisis blind us to broken system
Washington Post Nov 9, 08 9:16 AM CST
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The economy may be gasping, but that doesn’t give us a prescription to neglect health care, Ted Kennedy writes. “We must forge ahead with this urgent priority. The system is broken,” he writes in a Washington Post op-ed. The liberal lion points to recent signs that reform is possible: Congress passed legislation last month that guarantees insurers treat mental illnesses like physical ones, and Kennedy's home state of Massachusetts vastly expanded state coverage in 2006.
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Embattled senator plans to stay until Thanksgiving
Associated Press Oct 28, 08 11:32 AM CDT
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Ted Kennedy, who has been recovering from brain cancer and chemotherapy on Cape Cod, will return to his Washington home today. The 76-year-old senator is expected to stay until Thanksgiving before returning to his family's Hyannis Port compound. Kennedy has steadily increased his public activity since his seizure in May, surgery in June, and six weeks of subsequent radiation treatment.
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Bipartisan effort includes industry; goal is universal coverage
Washington Times Oct 24, 08 3:49 PM CDT
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Even as he undergoes cancer treatment, Ted Kennedy is coordinating bipartisan meetings with colleagues and lobbyists in an effort to produce health care legislation that includes universal coverage, the Washington Times reports. The meetings—involving labor unions, insurers, drug companies, and hospitals—“are a testament to how people feel about him,” said a GOP senatorial aide. Kennedy has called universal care "the cause of my life."
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Surgeon's hunch launches vaccine trials
San Francisco Chronicle Oct 6, 08 7:40 AM CDT
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Cancer researchers are finally taking seriously a young surgeon’s decade-long hunch that brain tumors are linked to a strain of herpes that lies dormant in 80% of Americans. The physician speculated that brain cancer patients—many of them affluent and educated—were more vulnerable to common viruses such as the herpes CMV strain because of their "hyper-hygienic" lives, reports the San Francisco Chronicle .
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ANALYSIS
Though, Roll Call cautions, financial disclosure forms an unreliable source
Roll Call Sep 23, 08 1:09 PM CDT
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John Kerry leads Roll Call's annual list of the 50 richest members of Congress, with a fortune estimated at $231 million. But financial-disclosure rules make it impossible to get a complete picture of lawmakers' assets, so Kerry, John McCain (No. 13, with $20 million), and the rest of the top 50 are likely much richer. Following the Massachusetts senator are: Rep. Jane Harman, D-Calif., $226 million Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., $161 million
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KTUU Sep 22, 08 5:45 PM CDT
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Jury selection began today in the corruption trial of Ted Stevens, the first US senator in over 20 years to face a criminal trial, reports WTUU of Anchorage. The list of 200-plus possible witnesses at the Alaska Republican's trial, in federal court in Washington, DC, includes Colin Powell as well as Democrats Ted Kennedy, Daniel Inouye, and Patrick Leahy, the AP reports.
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Bill would recruit 175,000 workers
Boston Globe Sep 12, 08 2:55 AM CDT
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Sen. Ted Kennedy has crafted a sweeping national service bill, to be introduced today, that would recruit 175,000 citizens of all ages to work in health, education, environmental protection and anti-poverty programs—with their pay partially subsidized by the government. The plan would provide $5 billion over five years to encourage citizens to work in community organizations—including faith-based groups—on programs aimed at solving national problems.
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OPINION
Fiery columnist bonds with Kennedy, explains hit-and-run accident
Creators Syndicate Sep 5, 08 4:02 PM CDT
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Although Robert Novak has antagonized many in Washington, that hasn’t stopped the political columnist's targets from encouraging him as he battles brain cancer. “I have had few good things to say about Teddy Kennedy since I first met him,” Novak admits in a syndicated column distributed today, yet his fellow cancer patient and his wife "have treated me like a close friend."
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