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...rite and out of respect, we honor those recently passed with praise for their accomplishments. For Senator Ted Kennedy, who died on Aug. 25 at age 77, there is no shortage in that regard. He boasts the most productive Senate career in memory, a public life that shaped five decades of national politics, and a loving family who will now draw together to mourn their loving patriarch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kennedy's Darkest Moments | 8/27/2009 | See Source »

...He’s one of a kind,” said Mass. Senator and former Presidential candidate John F. Kerry after a December ceremony held at Harvard to honor Kennedy. “It’s a privilege to serve with...

Author: By Lauren D. Kiel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Mass. Senator Ted Kennedy Dies at 77 | 8/26/2009 | See Source »

...Because Kennedy was the Senate's leading champion of health care reform, even his illness became a debating point. Allies called on lawmakers to honor his legacy, pass real reform; adversaries cited his case as a cautionary tale about too much change. "In countries that have government-run health care," warned Iowa's Republican Senator Charles Grassley, "I've been told that the brain tumor that Sen. Kennedy has - because he's 77 years old - would not be treated the way it's treated in the United States." This would be like saying, he went on, that "when somebody gets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Lessons of His Dying | 8/26/2009 | See Source »

...serious charge that any law-enforcement or social-services official would have to look into, particularly since there have in fact been some extremely rare instances of honor killings in the U.S. Most recently two Dallas-area sisters were murdered last year, allegedly by their Egyptian-born Muslim father, who relatives say was enraged that his daughters, 18 and 17 years old, were dating non-Muslim boys. (The father is still at large and is believed to have fled the country.) But Mohamed Bary and his wife Aysha adamantly insist it is "completely false" that they ever threatened to kill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Florida Culture-War Circus Over Rifqa Bary | 8/24/2009 | See Source »

...what's in the best interests of Rifqa Bary, whether the threat to her in this particular community is real and she could end up disappearing in the night there. Normally I would be an advocate for parental rights, but not in this case." (Read a TIME article on honor killings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Florida Culture-War Circus Over Rifqa Bary | 8/24/2009 | See Source »

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