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...allowed to own property and had very little rights. On the West Coast in particular, the discrimination was excited in great part by the ‘Yellow Peril’ propaganda put out by the Hearst newspapers,” Fujimoto says—referring to the chain of papers, including the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and the San Francisco Examiner, owned by Harvard dropout William Randolph Hearst...
Taco Bell's attempt at damage control needs damage control. The fast-food chain has responded poorly to this week's E. coli outbreak, experts say, and its bad public relations could hamper Taco Bell's efforts to reassure its customers...
...newsletter is no longer handwritten. In modern America the holiday newsletter is printed on the family’s DeskJet and usually has a festive border around it. But don’t be fooled by this ornament, the letter’s content is a veritable popcorn chain of falsehoods, all strung together with conventional and informal prose...
Opening the story proper, our historian sets the scene in Amsterdam, 1972. Sheltered, studious, and alienated from the “tough-talking, chain-smoking sophisticates” in the brat cohort of diplomats’ children, the protagonist spends long hours with the 19th century tomes in her father’s library during his frequent absences. She becomes captivated by a “much older volume” that breaks the collection’s uniformity: an enigmatic medieval text marked by a woodcut of a dragon and concealing a collection of yellowing letters...
...entrepreneur who at the age of 17 helped found the Subway sandwich chain gave students a candid taste of business life last night. Fred DeLuca described Subway’s tentative early days and dispensed advice for young professionals, speaking to about 40 students in the Dunster House Junior Common Room. DeLuca said he co-founded the Subway franchise in 1965 in hopes of covering his college expenses. Now the chain has nearly 27,000 branches worldwide. When DeLuca hit hard financial times early in Subway’s history, he faced a choice between shutting down the original location...