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Sen. Kennedy preparing to "do battle" with cancer
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy is considering a pill form of chemotherapy that would allow him to stay home on Cape Cod during treatment for a brain tumor, his son U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy said this weekend. Kennedy said his father...
June 16, 2008 10:21 am
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Mumford succeeds Slocum as GOP committeewoman
Speaking of late nights, Rhode Island Republicans met late into the night Thursday and chose Rep. Carol Mumford, R-Scituate, as the party’s national committeewoman. Mumford succeeds GOP grand dame Eileen Slocum, of Newport. Slocum, 95, has been a party fixture...
June 16, 2008 9:26 am
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Orr heads Brown's public-policy center
Following news that Darrell West, long the public face of polling and punditry at Brown University, is leaving on July 1 to become vice president of the Brookings Institution, the Washington, D.C.-based think tank, the school announced that Marion Orr,...
June 16, 2008 9:25 am
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Jim Brown visits Ocean State, old friend Harwood
Jim Brown will always be remembered by football fans of a certain age as the best running back of his time, and perhaps any time. Brown’s dazzling rushes enlivened many a dark late autumn Sunday afternoon in the 1960s in...
June 16, 2008 9:24 am
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Reed, Whitehouse, Patrick Kennedy reap honors
Three members of Rhode Island’s congressional delegation have been recognized for various contributions to U.S. medicine. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse won laurels from the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society last week for his efforts to legislate and lobby for high-tech...
June 16, 2008 9:18 am
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