Word: rhodes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Patrick Kennedy, who mysteriously plowed his Ford Mustang into a security barricade on Capitol Hill last week, once seemed the great hope of his generation of America's most storied political dynasty. He won his first election at 21: a college junior who had lived in Rhode Island only two years, Kennedy trounced a five-term incumbent to win a seat in the state legislature. In 1994 he was elected to Congress, and people predicted he would follow his father Edward into the Senate...
...when Rep. Patrick Kennedy, 38, smashed his car into a barricade on Capitol Hill around 2:45 a.m. on Thursday morning, which was first reported by the Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call. About 36 hours later Kennedy, a Rhode Island Congressman and the youngest of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy's three children with his wife Joan Kennedy, was standing before microphones on Capitol Hill to announce that he was headed to the famed Mayo Clinic in Minnesota to battle what he said had been a longtime struggle with addiction and depression. He also told the group that he'd been...
...Kennedy added, "I simply do not remember getting out of bed, being pulled over by the police, or being cited for three driving infractions." Kennedy also declared: "That's not how I want to live my life. And that's not how I want to represent the people of Rhode Island...
...March of 2000, he was videotaped shoving a Los Angeles airport security guard, and in August, the Coast Guard intervened when he had an argument with a girlfriend on a rented yacht. Since he became the youngest Kennedy elected to office when he won a seat in the Rhode Island state house at the age of 21, Kennedy has made no secret of the fact that the family legacy can weigh on his generation. In an interview with TIME back in July of 2001, he said that since privacy is the "ultimate luxury" in his position, "there's no sense...
...assured itself a one-game edge against second-place Dartmouth, Crimson captain Morgan Brown felt free to speculate on the inevitability of now.“It always comes down to the last weekend,” he said then, before Harvard played the Bears, Boston College, or Rhode Island this week. “Given past history, what do you really expect?”Expect this: once again the Red Rolfe title, and a berth in the Ivy League Championship Series (ICS), will come down to a split home-and-home doubleheader between two bitter archrivals. Tomorrow...