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...enviable and powerful position of taking for granted these assumptions--about control and responsibility and effectiveness. You have to understand the persuasive power of not needing to assert that something matters. It's part of the subtle power of Professor Christensen's case method. He likes to quote the Quaker saying, "God is in the details." If in the details, then in the whole enterprise. The stakes are high in every case he uses, and the teachers in his class are waving their arms to get air time...
DIED. Jessamyn West, 81, gentle-spirited novelist and short-story writer, best known for her first collection of stories, The Friendly Persuasion, about a Quaker family on the Indiana frontier during the Civil War; in Napa, Calif. Born into a Quaker family (Richard Nixon is her distant cousin), West set much of her fiction in her native Indiana, although she lived most of her life in California. "I am by all I know a Californian," she once said, "and by all I imagine a Hoosier...
Last week Quaker Oats learned that South Carolina had found its Flako corn-muffin mix had more EDB than federal guidelines permit. "We're not happy about it," said Ron Bottrell, a worried Quaker Oats spokesman. "This was our first product to be found out of compliance anywhere." In Ohio, Minnesota and North Dakota, General Mills voluntarily took Bisquick off the shelves, while South Carolina and Alabama recalled the company's Betty Crocker white-cake mixes...
...will be the Crimson's ability to stop Quaker juniors Anthony Arnolie and Karl Racne. That deadly duo led a second-half rally to lead Penn to a come-from-behind 69-66 win over Harvard earlier this year in Cambridge...
...create a flat and unoriginal character. This peevish politician is just another "hard luck kid" who developed a complex because he played second fiddle all his life--to his big brother, to Eisenhower, to Kennedy. At the end of the play, he reaches for the apron strings of his Quaker mother, whining "Mama, tell me what to do." He's the typical wimp who has cracked under pressure and now suffers under the delusion that he was really a hero who preserved his "secret honor...