Kennedy's point caused court observers to speculate he would join the four normally liberal-leaning justices to create a majority against the act.

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John Kerry, political consultant Joe Trippi, White House Counsel Greg Craig--even Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer--all worked for Kennedy at some point.

FORBES: The Senate

At a press conference in March 1962, while fielding a question about military reservists who were upset at being mobilized and deployed to Europe and Southeast Asia, Kennedy made the point that there is no level playing field -- not ever.

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At this point Mrs Kennedy broke down in tears.

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Senator Kennedy misses the whole point.

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Kennedy do is they provide a focal point for our political hopes and dreams.

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Question from: Voege5: Has the Kennedy clan taken an interest in the case up to this point?

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Justices Scalia and Thomas in many of the most important cases, wanted to overrule past decisions outright, while Chief Justice Roberts, Justice Alito and sometimes Justice Kennedy favored a more narrow approach that, well, depending on your point of view, either gutted previous decisions without saying so or represented a more limited approach.

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Critics of the Obama plan point to vagueness and lack of detail, contrasting his speeches unfavourably with John Kennedy's clear and specific demand in 1961 for a moon mission before the decade was out.

ECONOMIST: The space shuttle

We've assembled a mishap investigation team that immediately was assembled upon the point of past the stage in which the orbiter was to have landed here at Kennedy Space Center, a little after 9:30.

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That would come on top of the already hefty sales taxes levied by many cities and states, they point out, and would inevitably rise over time, much as income tax did until Presidents Kennedy and Johnson in the 1960s cut the top rate by 21 percentage points.

ECONOMIST: The presidential race

During the oral argument, the key "swing" Justice, Anthony Kennedy, indicated that he would only vote to uphold the individual mandate if he could find a logical stopping point to the government's argument.

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Mr. Cuomo's political fortunes have ebbed and flowed during the past decade, hitting a low point following his failed gubernatorial bid in 2002 and the very public end to his marriage to Kerry Kennedy.

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