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Steven Waldman
Ted Kennedy’s Last Suppers — And Yours
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The New York Times had a lovely piece about Ted Kennedy’s desire to have a “good ending” to his life. A priest led Mass each week and there was much prayer, and repitition of some of the simple wordly pleasures: “As recently as a few days ago, Mr. Kennedy was still digging into big bowls…
Does Health Care Cover Abortion or Not? Fact Checking the Fact Checkers
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You know things have gotten confusing when even the independent “fact checking” organizations can’t agree with each other. The question that tripped them up: does health care reform cover abortion? FactCheck.org last week said Obama was misleading when he claimed that his health care reform wouldn’t cover abortion. “It’s a matter of fact,” the non-partisan…
My Snapshots of Kennedy at the Democratic Convention
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Ted Kennedy, and the Art of the Deal
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swaldman
A while back, I wrote a behind-the-scenes book about the passage in 1993 of the law creating AmeriCorps. That national service program is sometimes called the “Domestic Peace Corps,” a reference to the international service program established by President John F. Kennedy. As chairman of the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee, the task for…
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