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...other large corporations, "We act like a small company" is one of the great empty slogans, but at Starbucks, executives tenaciously hold on to the idea that every store is like an independent coffeehouse. "You see the banter, the customers' knowing the people behind the counter," says CEO Jim Donald. "It's part of the reason they go." But Schultz and Donald are aware that it will be hard to keep the intimacy thing going. As Starbucks branches into more products (22 new drinks in two years, its own section of iTunes), spreads to more countries (from China to Brazil...
...During the mutiny by members of the elite Counter-Revolutionary Warfare unit, three loyalist soldiers were shot and-in an experience which some officers say has haunted him ever since-Bainimarama was hunted by armed rebels through a jungle-choked valley behind Suva's Queen Elizabeth Barracks. After the barracks were retaken, loyalists rounded up CRW soldiers regardless of whether they had taken part in the mutiny. Selesitino and the other soldiers allegedly fell victim to a violent paroxysm of revenge...
...There gets a point - given the amount of time that we've been here, number of forces we've had on the ground - when the addition of additional forces can be counter-productive. It can only further embed in people's mind that we're an occupation force, with no intention of leaving. It's critical, given this culture - very different from Western culture. I don't think Americans understand how that impacts on every decision that's made and every time a soldier takes an action...
Boys’ schools take into consideration normal male behavior and design the day around them. They can be counter-stereotypical, providing role models of men who mentor, who challenge, who inspire, sometimes by their evident affection for Cicero or the piccolo, for physics or Sandburg or ceramics. Manly examples of adults who have chosen without reluctance to teach and to pursue a passion that is not rich in monetary reward but, here at least, socially respected, gives children the opportunity to learn “there are many ways to be a boy,” as the Allen...
...Kahl contrasts the Iraq war with prior counter-insurgencies in which the U.S. has been involved, and comes away impressed. In Vietnam, for example, he writes that the number of civilians killed per month was nine times higher than in Iraq. "Even if the estimates for Iraq are off by a factor of two or three," Kahl writes, "the conflict's casualty count is far lower than that in previous U.S. counterinsurgency campaigns...