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...often referred to as the closest thing to American royalty, Kennedy had a passion for helping the poor and disenfranchised, which was reflected in many of the over 300 successful bills he sponsored during his tenure in the Senate. “When it came to that topic, a fire would come in his eyes and you could see him rise in his chair and fill with passion,” said Ellwood. Kennedy developed his passion for the underprivileged during his first few years in office, and the young senator relied on a group of Harvard professors to help...
...really good people use fire too, but I don’t want to kill myself,” said Gabrielle Ehrlich ’13 in introducing...
...Republican Party will have a rough time stopping universal healthcare legislation. Centrist Democrats will be more willing to follow the president’s lead if the gang fails than if it succeeds. They can tell their interests they tried their best. Furthermore, the price of friendly fire for centrist Democrats—being voted out of office a la 1994—is just too high...
...particular, he wonders why, eight years after 9/11, there is still no first-responder communications system so that police and fire departments across the country can communicate in the event of an attack. And he worries about the continued lack of tracking ability for foreign nationals who overstay their visas. "We don't know today if everybody who came in lawfully with a visa in the last five years has gone home," he says. "What happened to that sense of urgency...
...enclave in Burma's northeastern Shan state. By late August, the U.N. estimated that some 30,000 refugees had poured across the border into China's Yunnan province, as the Burmese military routed a small rebel force that had laid down its arms for two decades before a cease-fire crumbled in early August...