Ted Kennedy, tarnished but true liberal hero

EDWARD Moore Kennedy, senior US Senator for Massachusetts, lived a life that seemed to epitomise all the contradictions of his famous family. Senator Kennedy, who died yesterday aged 77, after a year-long struggle with a brain tumour, was not able to pursue the same presidential ambitions as his older brothers John Fitzgerald and Robert Francis. But neither did he succumb, as they did, to an assassin's bullets.