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  • Ted on C'quiddick: Not drunk, not romantic

    09/04/2009 1:18:13 AM PDT · by BradtotheBone · 36 replies · 1,871+ views
    Politico ^ | September 3, 2009 | Glenn Thrush
    Daily Newser Dave Saltonstall gets an advance copy of Ted Kennedy's posthumously-released memoir "True Compass" -- in which the Massachusetts senator used the platform to defend his inexplicable decision to abandon Mary Jo Kopechne after his car plunged off the bridge. Among the other revelations: A nine-year-old Teddy hid under the bunk at a private school in the Bronx because he was afraid of being sexually abused by the dorm master -- and the senator claims he was cajoled into cheating on a Spanish test at Harvard by a buddy and didn't hatch the scheme that resulted in his expulsion....