Word: foundered
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...wake up and smell the coffee at Starbucks. That's the lament of Howard Schultz, the founder and chairman of the ubiquitous java chain, in an internal memo that recently became external. In this wistful missive, Schultz fretted that, because coffee is delivered in flavor-locked packaging, the atmosphere had changed, the romance evaporated; the Starbucks "experience" of baristas grinding beans, pulling expresso shots and hand-crafting beverages had been automated away by machines that can knock out an expresso with the press of a button...
...delivered the principal address to the 49 students at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum at the Institute of Politics (IOP) in a speech entitled “Rugged Idealism,” which discussed the value of volunteer work and Khazei’s experiences as co-founder and CEO of City Year, a national service organization specializing in full-time, year-long volunteer involvement for youth. Khazei proposed that students participate in a year of volunteer work following high school in exchange for a year’s worth of college tuition payments—an idea...
...emboldened work ethic, reforms in education, and encouraging charity as alternative approaches to confronting poverty. “We’ve got to regulate behavior or we’ll have absolute chaos which will lead us to a totalitarian state,” she said. Parker, the founder of the Coalition on Urban Renewal & Education, a non-profit think tank, referred several times to her welfare days in Los Angeles. “I bought the lies of the left,” Parker said. “I listened to their lies and they absolutely destroyed...
...Commons last fall, a group of students decided that the campus lacked a forum for progressive legal thought. Earlier this month, the students launched the Harvard Law & Policy Review in hopes of promoting discussion among liberal progressives, according to the journal’s editor-in-chief and co-founder, James H. Weingarten. The publication’s inaugural issue featured an article by Sen. Charles E. Schumer ’71 on congressional power in the 21st century. Schumer, New York’s senior Democratic senator and a Harvard Law graduate, argues that one of the new Democratic...
...Having a place for Quadlings or people who live in Mather to take a quick nap and get rejuvenated when they’re out for the day would definitely be a good thing,” said Abigail W. Darby ’08, co-founder of the 226-member Harvard Facebook group “Nappers Anonymous.” “My moments of most creativity and brilliance come in the beginning stages of sleep,” said Darby of her own passion for napping. Co-founders of the South Bend nap club, Michael Duttlinger...