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...DIED. Harriett Woods, 79, Missouri politician whose relentless campaigning and razor-thin loss in a 1982 bid for the U.S. Senate, despite being overwhelmingly outspent, inspired the creation of the grass-roots fund-raising group Emily's List; of leukemia; in University City, Mo. Woods won the Democratic nomination over banker Burleigh Arnold, who had the backing of party leadership. Her high-profile candidacy, which culminated in a loss to John Danforth by 26,247 votes, sparked Emily's List--short for Early Money Is Like Yeast--which in the last election cycle raised $46 million for women candidates nationwide...
Mankind must realize that growth should not outpace the ability of a natural resource to replenish itself within its given time frame. The human species has grown arrogant. Nature does not run on our clock; it has its own. HARRIETT E. BOWIE Ruckersville...
...seem like pretty socially active guys.” Having noticed the unusual costume following one of Quincy’s recent nighttime fire alarms, Chan speculated that “maybe they were protesting against the fire drill.” Crimson editor and Quincy resident Harriett E. Green ’03 saw the trio in the dining hall. She suspected that the protest was either anthrax-related or “some sort of commentary on smoke inhalation” in light of the numerous fire drills. Whatever their protest truly concerns, Quincy students will remain...
...Harriett A. Green...
...Little Women. In real life it was inhabited by a succession of local celebrities--the Alcotts (1845-48), before they moved to Orchard House; Nathaniel Hawthorne (1852-53 and 1860-64), who gave the house its current name and added the Italianate tower topped with a "sky-parlour"; and Harriett Lothrop (1883-1924), who under the pen name Margaret Sidney wrote the classic Five Little Peppers books...