Word: quakers
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Less than two minutes later, though, Penn tied and then took the lead on goals by Brian Amen and James Riordan. With 16 seconds remaining, Harvard sophomore midfielder Carle Stenmark took advantage of a Quaker penalty to tie the game...
...Friends Central, a small Quaker high school in Philadelphia, Frank started on a team that turned out four NCAA Division I hoops phenoms, two Division II standouts, and three Division III players...
...sequence of events—two Quaker wins, a sweep of Cornell by Harvard and Dartmouth, a sweep of Yale by Penn and Princeton and a Harvard loss to Columbia—that would lead to such a drastic result seems a bit far-fetched, but the sheer fact that the race could be over with two Ivy weekends to go has to be a bit disconcerting to those fans who looked forward to another tense fight to the finish...
That was the genesis of Barratt's first postretirement venture, Quaker Bolivia Link, a nonprofit founded in 1995 that funds dozens of projects in rural Bolivia, mostly high in the Andes where government funds rarely reach anyone. Most of the projects focus on stabilizing the food and water supply, though the organization takes its direction solely from locals and strives to help them achieve what they need most, be that greenhouses, schools or trees. "We don't really take them out of poverty--we know that," says Barratt. Over the past 10 years, Quaker Bolivia Link has raised...
...recent years, however, with Quaker Bolivia Link fully up and running, Barratt has been raising awareness about poverty closer to home, in San Diego, where she and Ken moved in 2001. Now she pours her creative energies into Street Light, a newspaper for the homeless that she co-edits. Not only are the vendors homeless, so are many of the reporters, writers and board members. "We try to give a voice to this segment of society that is not just ignored but almost treated like untouchables," says Barratt. Her official role at the paper is to find stories and sign...