The Kennedys are sometimes graces jokingly refered to as "America's royal family", and Edward Kennedy's funeral drew many of Washington's elite.

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"The international community has offered the North a path to get back in the good graces of the international community,".

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the soul of the Democratic Party; and the lion of the U.S.Senate graces nearly 1,000 laws, and who penned more than 300 himself,".

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