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Article: Kennedy Is Hospitalized After Seizure
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- The Washington Post
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- May 18, 2008
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Edward M. Kennedy, a liberal Democratic icon of the Senate and
the surviving patriarch of American political royalty, suffered a
seizure at his home in Hyannis Port, Mass., yesterday and was rushed
by helicopter to Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, hospital
officials said.
The 76-year-old senior senator from Massachusetts was awake and
joking with his family by late afternoon, according to a source
close to the Kennedy family who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
By early evening, he was watching a Boston Red Sox game and ordering
dinner from Legal Seafood, the source said.
Larry Ronan, Kennedy's primary-care physician, released a
statement saying Kennedy was "not in any ...