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...John Kerry The former presidential candidate is chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and a past TIME 100 honoree In the 47 years since he was elected to the U.S. Senate, Ted Kennedy has championed the dreams and aspirations of generations of Americans. Whole areas of public policy bear his imprint--health care, immigration, education, women's equality and civil rights...
...dying breath, I'd like to be at his bedside and say, "Did you do it?"' SAM DONALDSON, longtime ABC News correspondent, on wanting to ask Fidel Castro whether the former Cuban leader had a role in assassinating John F. Kennedy...
...This was a tragic issue on the magnitude of losing a basketball team in an airplane crash.' JOHN WASH, president of club operations at Florida's International Polo Club Palm Beach, where 21 ponies mysteriously collapsed and died before a tournament match...
...presidential nod on Tuesday toward the creation of what some are calling a "truth commission" to ferret out the origin of the harsh interrogations is likely to get renewed traction. Democrats Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont and Representative John Conyers of Michigan, who head the two congressional judiciary committees, have argued for such a panel, modeled on the widely respected one that studied 9/11. Having sparked the current conflagration by releasing the memos, Obama can only hope that creating such a commission could tamp it down - and keep this political firestorm from sucking up the valuable political oxygen he needs...
...past few years are anything to go by, the successful candidate will help MI5 grapple with terrorism, work to stymie the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and sharpen its surveillance and counter-intelligence efforts. "There's an enormous amount of scientific content in this role," Professor John Beddington, the government's chief scientific adviser, told the BBC. On top of that, "it will involve a sort of future gazing to see where technology will be taking us in a year...