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...belong in the legislatures and courts, not in our stores." Gun opponents want Starbucks to exercise its legal authority to ban gun displays on its property, as Peet's Coffee & Tea and California Pizza Kitchen have done. "Guns are not protest signs," says Paul Helmke, president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence. But because California law prohibits openly carried guns from being loaded, they do seem more like symbols than weapons. Which gun-control proponents might regard as a kind of victory: the guns at Starbucks are no more potent than the espresso...
...Aniston and Gerard Butler - Jenni-Butt to the gossip rags - in a romcom battle of the exes. Another, Repo Men, sent Jude Law and Forest Whitaker cavorting through a high-tech dystopia. The weekend's third big debut, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, boasted no stars, an inexpensive marketing campaign and low expectations from industry gurus. All it had going for it was a popular series of kid-angled novels by Jeff Kinney, who last year was named one of TIME's 100 Most Influential People...
While the ladies were not quite able to match the finish of the co-ed team, the women’s squad still opened up its spring campaign in solid fashion, taking fifth at the 27th Women’s Intersectional at Navy...
...stroke victory over the Golden Knights on one of their home courses—on which the Crimson was playing for the first time—marked the third straight win for Harvard, which had closed out its 2009 fall campaign with top finishes in both the Yale Fall Invitational and the Kelly Gutshall Invitational...
...election campaign had raised hopes that Iraqis were ready to move beyond the chaos and violence that had plagued their country since the ouster of Saddam Hussein. The major political blocs appeared to have recognized that no single ethnic group or sect could govern peacefully and effectively without making alliances across traditional fault lines. The big parties put forward diverse coalitions preaching national unity, even if each retained a core identity well known to voters: Maliki's State of Law coalition ran on a law-and-order platform but drew primarily from a moderate Shi'ite base; Allawi's Iraqiya...