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...expense of her father’s first wife, who died after conceiving six children with the oil baron. Two years later, Ray married H.L. Hunt, 29 years her elder, and Swanee Wright became Swanee Hunt. Her family moved into a Dallas replica of George Washington’s Virginia mansion, Mt. Vernon...

Author: By Carolyn F. Gaebler, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: From ‘Wright’ to Wealth: An Oil Heiress Tells Her Tale | 11/6/2006 | See Source »

...bullied, lied, changed rules, twisted arms and done everything possible to retain power, without consideration for the minority Democrats or the U.S. as a whole. The G.O.P. has violated the principles it once stood for?especially fiscal conservatism?and now stands only for clinging to power. Barbara Stephens McLean, Virginia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 11/5/2006 | See Source »

...second day of the three-day Harvard Women’s Tennis invitational, held from Friday through Sunday at the Murr Center tennis courts, the Crimson had dominated Rice in both singles and doubles competition, while splitting matches with the University of Virginia in both singles and doubles play. The duo of senior Elsa O’Riain and sophomore Beier Ko set the tone for the Crimson in its doubles matches with Rice, defeating the Owls’ Tiffany Lee and Julie Chao 8-2. Harvard would win three out the four doubles matches it played against Rice, with...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: SPORTS BRIEF: Women’s tennis team rolls over Rice, fights for split with Virginia | 11/5/2006 | See Source »

...Pork Trumps Scandal in West Virginia Democrat Alan Mollohan was supposed to be one ethically challenged incumbent that Republicans could beat. But so far, voters don't seem to agree

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign '06: In Final Days, Parties Dream of Senate Upsets | 11/2/2006 | See Source »

...While steamy fiction has briefly become the latest battlefield in the Virginia Senate race-with Republican incumbent George Allen accusing his opponent Jim Webb of demeaning women in various sex scenes from his best-selling novels-Head's equating romance novels with pornography has become the flashpoint of the race. The Democrat's description of Republican opponent Susan Combs as a "pornographic book writer" because she wrote one romance novel 26 years ago has set off an outcry not just in Texas, but throughout the vast community of writers and readers who have been quick to come to the defense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign '06: A Comptroller's Race in Texas Grows Hot and Steamy | 11/2/2006 | See Source »

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