Opinion
New bill would give terminally ill access to unproven drugs
Wall Street Journal Jun 11, 08 8:00 AM CDT
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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.
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Dem's focus now on healthcare bill, Obama campaign, son says
WBZ 4 Jun 9, 08 12:09 PM CDT
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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."
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analysis
Halperin runs down what the 2 top Dems are underestimating
Time Jun 4, 08 1:29 PM CDT
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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.
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... perhaps we all should worry about brain cancer—though studies unclear on link
New York Times Jun 3, 08 2:13 PM CDT
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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.
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Family time follows brain surgery for
Mass. senator, 76
Boston Globe Jun 3, 08 12:29 PM CDT
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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.
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Procedure begins at 9am; chemo to follow
CNN Jun 2, 08 6:48 AM CDT
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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.
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Ted Kennedy's wife, Victoria, is helping him recover—and could even take his job
Washington Post May 30, 08 6:33 PM CDT
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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 .
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Wind back in Kennedy's sails
Boston Herald May 27, 08 4:48 AM CDT
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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.
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Dem urges grads to bypass 'money culture'
Politico May 25, 08 4:56 PM CDT
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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.
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College glad Kennedy found graduation pinch-hitter, but logistics are tougher
Hartford Courant (Conn.) May 23, 08 2:55 PM CDT
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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.
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OPINION
Parallels 'startling' between Senate's current lion and a logical successor
Politico May 22, 08 6:46 PM CDT
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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.
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From hospital bed to schooner
Boston Globe May 22, 08 6:34 AM CDT
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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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OPINiON
Yes, he's a Kennedy,
but Ted is loved for effectiveness, not flash
Washington Post May 21, 08 2:24 PM CDT
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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.
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ANALYSIS
She stands to be
more powerful than
any loser in history
Chicago Tribune May 21, 08 10:09 AM CDT
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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.
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