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...politics is not about prime time and gentlemanly gestures, as Richards would find out when she took the next step on the big stage and announced a bid for governor. The Democratic primary pitted Richards against the man sometimes called the Freddie Krueger of Texas politics, then Attorney General Jim Mattox. In public Richards smiled, hugged photographers' necks and asked, "Howya doin' darlin?" But she was tough as nails in the trenches. Mattox accused her of failing to come clean on rumors that she had used cocaine. It was nasty, but she beat Mattox and went on to win over...
...bid to accommodate busy schedules, forward-thinking companies like My Girlfriend's Kitchen are trying to improve lives with a retail experience that's personally rewarding. Why crank out dinner alone when you can whip up something delicious and make new friends? Inviting consumers to join an in-store social network is proving so appealing that meal-assembly kitchens are popping up across the country. Corporate giants such as Nokia and Ikea are also creating retail communities, offering shoppers services and entertainment that mesh into their lives, at times blurring the boundaries between retail and reality...
...Kennedy ’54-’56 and returned to the Massachusetts Democrat’s office as chief counsel three years ago. Hicks, who worked on Howard Dean’s presidential campaign as well as British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s re-election bid, will lead a study group on electoral organizing. She said she hopes to help students become “more informed about the political process.” Khazei, who attended IOP study groups as an undergraduate, co-founded the service corps City Year along with his Harvard roommate...
Aleksy visited Harvard in 2003 in a bid to have the bells returned. In an e-mail to Lowell House earlier this month, Eck and Co-Master Dorothy A. Austin wrote that “we will certainly have another visit from Russia to Lowell House” this academic year...
...gives the works by Sickert to Harvard, Cornwell isn’t giving up in her bid to establish a link between the artist and the killer. She hopes that DNA testing will provide her with further evidence to support her theory. “This isn’t over with yet,” she said...