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...malignant glioma is usually deadly, but not always (see page 52). As news of Kennedy's disease spread throughout the Capitol, friends and colleagues across party lines prayed that he would add cancer to the list of struggles he has survived. "He's in a fighting mood," fellow Massachusetts Senator John Kerry said...
When we walked into the Capitol, we were not the only ones lobbying. Members of the Alzheimer's Association, which had also been holding seminars at the Grand Hyatt, were walking around with Alzheimer's sashes around their chests, as if they had entered some pageant years ago and had forgotten to take them off. The hallways looked like the set of a Marx Brothers movie, with lobbyists running back and forth in their uniforms: pilots, veterans, real estate agents, guys from the egg producers making omelets...
...Already, though, Kennedy's current absence is being felt on Capitol Hill. Votes through the end of the week looked uncertain as Democrats scrambled to tally support on amendments to two key pieces of legislation before the chamber. Every vote will count in the Senate's attempt to override President George W. Bush's veto of the farm bill and on a number of controversial provisions, including a measure to expand education assistance to military veterans, in the emergency war supplemental bill, which primarily provides funding for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan...
...Kennedy, the second-longest serving Senator in office, has, over the years, become an institution on Capitol Hill. Which is why, when word came on a brilliant Saturday morning that Kennedy had been rushed to the hospital after suffering what was initially described as stroke-like symptoms (and later called a seizure), the news hit Washington like a small earthquake...
...Visit Kennedy's hideaway office in the Capitol and one can see a photographic guide through his unparalleled family political history: his brothers John and Bobby, nephew John F. Kennedy Jr., his nieces Caroline and California First Lady Maria Shriver. But Ted Kennedy's legacy comes not merely from his family history, but his achievements as one of the greatest legislators of the century. "Kennedy's best years in the Senate came after his presidential run," former Majority Leader Tom Daschle told me later in the week. "The lion that he is today is in part due to his presidential...