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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) -- When Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy receives an honorary degree from Harvard University at a special convocation today, it will give his home state another moment to recall the Kennedy mystique and Kennedy's own decades of work in the Senate.

Those moments have been coming more frequently in recent months as Kennedy's admirers heap accolades on the 76-year-old senator as he battles brain cancer.

The honors include plans by the Massachusetts Maritime Academy to rename its training ship The Kennedy in tribute to the Kennedy clan and a proposal to build a national institute in Boston focused on the U.S. Senate and the more than four decades of service by Kennedy.

Kennedy, the father of U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy, D-R.I., has also won honors from the governments of Mexico and Chile.

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