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A Donor's Alternative Energy

Oil heiress Swanee Hunt champions progressive causes

By DOMENICA MARCHETTI

When Swanee Hunt was a 30-year-old deciding what to call her new charitable foundation, she considered leaving out her last name. She didn't want to go out of her way to remind anyone that her father was H.L. Hunt, the eccentric Texas oil tycoon who was known for his extreme right-wing political views and his disdain for...

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