The Measure of a Man

Joan Vennochi, in The Boston Globe (August 27, 2009), writes:

"In the end, he [Ted Kennedy] shouldn't be judged by his greatest achievements, nor for his greatest blemish. He should be judged as a man who returned to the arena, no matter what. In victory, he did not stop fighting. In tragedy, he did not give up. He did not succumb to weakness, including his own."

"This is not the measure of a myth. It is the measure of a man."