being a senator changes a person. ted wrote in his memoirs. as vickie said, it may take a year or two years or three years, but it always happens. it fills you with a heightened sense of purpose. that's the magic of the senate. that's the essence of what it can be. and who but ted kennedy and his family would create a full-scale replica of the senate chamber and open it to everyone? we live in a time of such great cynicism about all our institutions. and we are cynical about government and about washington most of all. it's hard for our children to see in the noisy and too-often trivial pursuits of today's