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Tag: Ted Kennedy

  • In passing . . .

    Through his own suffering, Ted Kennedy became more alive to the plight and suffering of others — the sick child who could not see a doctor; the young soldier sent to battle without armor; the citizen denied her rights because of what she looks like or who she loves or where she comes from.

  • Did healthcare reform die with Kennedy?

    “The dream shall never die,” was the ringing declaration once made by Sen. Ted Kennedy. But with Kennedy’s death from brain cancer at age 77, his dream of universal health insurance coverage for all citizens may well have died with him.