Word: quakers
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...Betty Suarez. On ABC's hit comedy-soap Ugly Betty, she's a fashion-magazine assistant who is distinctly unfashionable--chunky sweaters, frizzy hair, bear-trap braces--but succeeds through good old Yankee values like perseverance, optimism and hard work. Smart and sweet-hearted, she embodies the Puritan-Shaker-Quaker principle of valuing inner good over outer appearance. She's as Norman Rockwell as a chestnut-stuffed turkey. The actress who plays her is even named America Ferrera...
...Beirut to negotiate the release of Western hostages. Today Waite no longer works for the Anglican Church. In fact, he no longer even attends services. Fed up with attempts to modernize Anglican worship that he says have "left little time for contemplation and quietness," he began going to Quaker services last month. Waite now devotes his time to charitable causes with personal resonance. He recently started an organization called Hostage UK, which offers support to families of hostages. This week he plans to return to Lebanon to work with children in Palestinian refugee camps...
...three-and-out that followed was only mildly unsuccessful in comparison to Harvard’s next drive, which began at the Quaker 3-yard line...
...That was especially true in the early going, when Penn managed 68 yards on the ground and earned two touchdowns thanks to the feet of Quaker tailback Joe Sandberg. The next three quarters, however, saw Penn gain just 30 more rushing yards, giving the team 98 for the game. It was the eighth time this year that Harvard has held an opponent under the arbitrarily sacred 100-yard mark...
...Harvard’s offensive stagnancy may have been due in part to four turnovers and an untimely, untouched safety, but part of the reason the Crimson had so much trouble moving the ball was the leg of Quaker punter Anthony Melillo. His per-punt average of 36.8 yards won’t turn any heads, but it was his precision at the game’s key moments that killed many of Harvard’s best chances at climbing out of its second-half hole...