Kennedy was forced to testify about a bar-hopping weekend that led to sexual battery charges against his nephew, William Kennedy Smith.

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Black's clients have included Rush Limbaugh and William Kennedy Smith.

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Starting in 1997, Massachusetts had operated its Medicaid program under an arrangement worked out between Ted Kennedy, Republican Governor William Weld, and the Clinton Administration.

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Mr Yeo's job is to produce three separate portraits of the party leaders, William Hague, Tony Blair and Charles Kennedy.

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Justices William Rehnquist, Byron White and Anthony Kennedy said they would allow restrictions on abortion, but only if the restrictions had a rational basis.

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Under the proposals, Mr Blair would have faced the then Tory leader William Hague and Liberal Democrat leader Charles Kennedy in two live debates screened separately on BBC1 and ITV.

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At the 1997 general election Labour had 418 MPs, William Hague's Tories had 165 and Charles Kennedy's Liberal Democrats had 46.

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But the need for political leaders to appear "interesting" is a recent phenomenon and has seen the inevitable comparisons drawn between Mr Blair, Tory leader William Hague and, to some extent, Liberal Democrat boss Charles Kennedy.

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Before his death, Melanson published Rhodes-Hughes' statement in "Shadow Play, " a book he co-authored with William Klaber in 1997 and one of several Melanson wrote on the Robert Kennedy assassination.

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