Edmund Muskie, Walter Mondale, Eugene McCarthy and Phil Hart while they regaled each other with the foibles of Washington was a treat that helped lighten the often tense atmosphere of debate on heated issues.

CNN: Commentary: Kennedy a worker, not a playboy

When my first Senate boss, Phil Hart, was in the last stages of his battle with cancer, Kennedy spent hours by his side offering humor, Irish tales and Senate banter almost endlessly, as Chris Dodd and many others have now done for him.

CNN: Commentary: Kennedy a worker, not a playboy

Joe Hart replaces David James in goal and Phil Jagielka and Theo Walcott are in for John Terry and Frank Lampard.

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