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...Quaker Chris Flynn signaled for a fair catch, but let the ball bounce instead. A Princeton player subsequently tried to down the ball, touched it, but failed to control it. As Princeton players trudged off the field--thinking the ball had been downed--the pigskin continued to bounce freely...
...last time a special teams breakdown allowed a Harvard opponent to return a kickoff for a touchdown--when Penn's Rich Comizio gave the Quaker's decisive lead last year--the Crimson rolled over and played dead. Harvard lost to Penn, 38-7, and then lost an upset to Yale the following week...
...United Church of Christ. The movement has also been endorsed by Conservative Judaism's Rabbinical Assembly. Pastors and congregation members who have sheltered refugees within their churches maintain that when these Central American immigrants are deported to their native countries, they are often punished severely. Says Jim Corbett, a Quaker and Sanctuary co-founder, who is among those on trial in Tucson: "We are facing jail, but they are the ones facing torture, murder and violation of their human rights...
...served as a maintenance crewman on an admiral's plane during the Viet Nam War. Alex Ghiselin attended Dartmouth, worked for Eugene McCarthy's presidential campaign and later as a reporter for the Boston Globe. Ned Krutsky is a strong, silent type who got his education at a small Quaker college and a house in Haight-Ashbury. Jim Locke, son of a lawyer and a college dropout, built his first house from a "hippy-dippy how-to-do-it book...
...shopping spree for consumer-products firms may be only beginning. Investors are already driving up the stock prices of a host of potential targets, including General Mills, Pillsbury and Quaker Oats. Speculation now centers on Beatrice, the Chicago-based producer of Tropicana orange juice and La Choy Chinese food. Beatrice stock jumped 3 1/8 a share last week, to close at 39 1/4. One reason: Unilever is rumored to be eyeing Beatrice after seeing Richardson-Vicks slip away...