"For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dream shall never die"

Newsday - Edward M. Kennedy, the iconic “liberal lion” of the U.S. Senate and reigning patriarch of a legendary family political dynasty, whose advocacy of social issues left an indelible stamp on a half-century of American politics, died of brain cancer Tuesday night at his Cape Cod, Mass., home. He was 77.  Read more.