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WHEN I LEARNED OF Senator Edward M. Kennedy’s death, I shared with millions around the world a deep sense of personal and professional loss. Inevitably, the personal dominated. Here was a man, great and flawed, mythical and mortal, who could operate with equal comfort on the world stage and in personal relationships. He affected the history of nations and of countless unheralded individuals who passed through the powerful force field that he projected. I was lucky to be one of those individuals.

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