Book Review - period ended 12.1.2006

Crime and Punishment/Prison Reform//Mom Speaks Out About Inmate Son's Death/WLNS/Lansing/MI/USA/16-Nov-06//... society.". The group that called the hearing is a Quaker organization that's trying to get the attention of the legislature. They ...

Book Review/Quaker History/Business/Chocolate/Sweet seduction, bitter past/Ottawa Citizen/Ottawa/Ontario/Canada/19-Nov-06//... possible. In Britain, Quaker doctor Joseph Fry harnessed steam power to the cocoa press, and the chocolate industry was born. Fry ...

Book Review/Quaker Schools//The Odd Couple/Washington Post/Washington/DC/USA/18-Nov-06//... Her ancestors owned the land the college is standing on. Her great-grandfather was a Quaker abolitionist and one of the wealthiest men in Philadelphia. ...

Book Review/Quaker Schools//OPPOSITES ATTRACT/Chicago Sun-Times/Chicago/IL/USA/19-Nov-06//... in her public high school, Minette, a scholarship student, is unprepared for the rigors of the exclusive Schuyler College, founded by Genna's Quaker ancestors. ...

Book Review/Quaker Schools//Human nature and vintage Oates/Orlando Sentinel/Orlando/FL/USA/19-Nov-06//... as a whippet.". Infamous Max is a disreputable scion of a wealthy and historically significant Quaker family. Genna feels impelled ...

Book Review/Quaker Schools//'Black Girl/White Girl' revisits troubled times/USA Today/New York/NY/USA/21-Nov-06//Genna Meade is 18 in the fall of 1974, a freshman at Schuyler College, a liberal arts school near Philadelphia established by her Quaker ancestors. ...

Book Review/Quaker Schools//Black Girl/White Girl/The Australian/Sydney/Australia/Oceania/24-Nov-06//... It is the story of a young woman from philanthropic stock (Quaker and high-minded) whose father is a famous left-wing activist and attorney in mid-1970s US, in ...