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Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bear Trap | 3/20/2008 | See Source »

...partly due to softening consumer spending, but Starbucks executives insist that by retraining the company on a coffee-centric customer experience, they can revive sales and the brand. "This is in many ways self-induced," says Schultz. "That's why I feel so confident and optimistic we can fix it ourselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Starbucks Announces New Upgrades | 3/19/2008 | See Source »

...panel by comparing test scores among different racial groups, noting trends associated with racial and socioeconomic backgrounds. He also emphasized that the racial achievement gap exists among all social levels. Other panelists identified ways to help combat this gap. “There is no standard way to fix it,” said former Johnson & Johnson Worldwide Vice President Cedric Jones. Jones praised schools’ willingness to try new and different methods of addressing the problem, including peer mentor programs and parent advocacy groups. HKS student Joshua Garriga added that providing decent jobs, encouraging integrity in children...

Author: By Christopher J. Hollyday, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Panel Discusses Fixes for Gap | 3/19/2008 | See Source »

...boasting a nearly “wireless campus,” we can discreetly Facebook-stalk even in Expos. But why is it that so often, midway through crafting a comment on some embarrassing photo, the connection gives out?Even though FAS Information Technology reports a continuous effort to fix wireless problems on campus, Harvard students still gripe. The 2006-2007 Annual Undergraduate Computer Survey, based on 2951 responses, shows a noticeable difference in satisfaction between the River Houses and the Quad (for once Quadlings win out), while freshmen reported a zero percent dissatisfaction rate.Those in Mass. Hall are better...

Author: By Vidya B. Viswanathan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Reading the Signals | 3/19/2008 | See Source »

...interviewed these kinds of people over and over again - the same people who say "Death to America! Death to George Bush!" - want to know why within three weeks, why the electricity wasn't completely restored to Baghdad because after all it was America. If America couldn't fix everybody's problems in the first 5 months of the end of the war, it really doesn't matter that 5 years later many of those problems remain unsolved. By this point, people have stopped marking their calendars to see how long it's been since the fall and to measure America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bobby Ghosh — TIME World Editor | 3/18/2008 | See Source »

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