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SHOULD have brought a life vest and snorkel, Teddy. Sen. Ted Kennedy was having a ball reading to a captive roomful of New York City third-graders yesterday when suddenly a dangerous question spewed out of the mouths of babes. "When was your most embarrassing moment with Splash?" a pint-sized jokester from PS 11 in Chelsea asked Ted. The kid was asking about Splash - Teddy's black Portuguese water dog who, at that very moment, sat quietly at Ted's feet, along with another pooch named Sunny. But the adults in the room could not help but think about "splash." As in...

Ted Kennedy’s people yesterday continued to deny a supermarket tabloid tale that the senior senator fathered an out-of-wedlock son 21 years ago after a New York newspaper reported that the alleged “love child” confirmed the story. “It’s still not true,” said Kennedy spokesgal Melissa Wagoner after the New York Daily News reported a bizarre e-mail exchange with a man purporting to be Christopher Allen. In the e-mail, Allen joked that he has “the classic Kennedy drinking problem” to the Daily News and added “it is kinda shocking to finally find out who my real father is.” But a family member...

The murder in Modesto and the subsequent circumstances reminded me of an event 25 years ago. From a Google search. Sealed Records are still another phenomena largely reserved for the politically well-connected. In cases where a legitimate criminal or civil inquiry is made which would prove damning to an individual or agency, in many cases that repost is sealed, prohibiting civilians from ever reading it. Now I understand that some documents regarding war efforts are sealed as a matter of national security, but why are the following documents sealed? The Ted Kennedy accident report regarding the death of Mary Jo...