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...When you came to the States, you stayed with a Quaker family. How did that experience affect you? Andrew Sun, Los Angeles It was during the Vietnam War era, so my eyes were opened to a lot of things about the world: democracy, freedom, choices and the responsibility that is tied to freedom and choice. In [the new film] A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, the daughter says, "I learned a new language, I learned a new culture and became a new person." And that's really what I went through...
...Herbert Hoover was "the Great Humanitarian" who saved Belgium from starvation; under the right circumstances, he could have been a great President. But his temperament undermined his talent; he never understood that politics was more art than engineering. He later recalled that after growing up in Iowa as a Quaker orphan, he was 10 years old before he realized he could do something for the sheer joy of it without offending God. "Now that's a lesson from his early days that I think crippled him temperamentally," says Smith, "particularly as the kind of empathetic leader that we desperately called...
...from one of its first products--a carbonated apple soda drink. After building its product line and name recognition in New York through pervasive "Snapple Lady" television ads and the introduction of flavored teas, the company became nationally known, earning $700 million in annual sales before being purchased by Quaker Oats Co. in 1994. Raised in Queens, N.Y., Golden earned his keep in pre-Snapple days by working as a window washer with his Romanian father and later as a business broker...
Over the years (the company dates to 1824, when John Cadbury, a Quaker in Birmingham, England, opened a shop selling tea, coffee and chocolate), Cadbury has snapped up some impressive brands, including such names as Dr Pepper, 7Up, A&W, Canada Dry, Sunkist and Snapple, which came as part of its merger with Schweppes in 1969. On the candy side, it was Stitzer's 2003 acquisition of Adams, which included the Halls, Dentyne and Trident brands, that transformed Cadbury into the world's largest confectionery company...
...level—a single score separated Harvard and perennial bottom dweller Columbia at halftime of the Crimson’s 27-12 win—finally reached its Ivy League champion potential. In the 23-7 victory over Penn, the defense continued to shine against a strong Quaker run game, allowing just 198 total offensive yards and limiting the second best tailback in the league to just 73 on the ground. But the offense, too, showed the best was yet to come, with Pizzotti throwing for 232 yards and two touchdowns against one of the top defenses...