June 10, 2008 12:00  Ten Best: Kennedy/Byrd moments  June 2,
2008  Last week the two most senior members of the US Senate,
Sens. Robert Byrd (D-WV) and Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.), faced
individual health crises. Kennedy, who eventually won the Senate
seat vacated by his brother John in 1962, underwent surgery for
a malignant brain tumor at Duke University Medical Center in
Durham. Byrd, who was elected to the US House of Representatives
in 1952 and took a Senate seat in 1958, was hospitalized in the
Washington DC area after experiencing lethargy and a high fever.
Between them they have served their country for more than 100
years, though it hasnlt always been pretty.  Chappaquiddick
(Kennedy)  Let's get this one right out of the way, shall we? In
1969, a young Teddy Kennedy took an even younger staffer from
his brother Bobby's 1968 presidential campaign for a drive to
the Vineyard - Martha's, of course - and on the way he drove off
the Dike Bridge and into the water. Kennedy swam to safety while
the woman, Mary Jo