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...company is back to thinking about dispensing machines as it works through its biggest general operational problem: the length of time it takes to serve a customer. Starbucks aims to serve your drink in three minutes or less--any longer and people might bolt. Less than 60% of stores manage to hit that mark on average, which means that the company is missing millions in sales...
...above a harbor-side promenade. The traditional neoclassical museum entrance is inverted: two sweeping sets of steps rise from the open water to meet the museum, but imposing marble is replaced by warm wood and they are better suited to picnics than processions.When completed, the promenade should stretch the length of the harbor, though currently only the section adjacent to the museum is finished. Underneath the massive cantilever, the space is not cavernous, as it threatens to be when seen from afar, but intimate—an effect achieved through the repeated use of wood planking to cover the promenade...
...really be passionately moderate,” Colbert concluded. “It’s like wearing an ‘Extra Medium’—it doesn’t exist.” ‘WILLFULLY IGNORANT’ Colbert also spoke at length about one of his show’s most controversial segments, “Better Know a District” (BKAD), in which he interviews members of Congress and often lures them into embarrassing verbal bouts. Corcoran asked Colbert what he thinks BKAD interviewees can do to avoid looking foolish...
...described the militias as akin to neighborhood watch committees. Bush may also find al-Hakim unwilling to listen to any complaints about the Mahdi Army of Moqtada al-Sadr. Although the two Shi'ite clerics are rivals, they have a mutual interest in keeping the U.S. at arm's length. Al-Hakim knows that if he goes along with any American plan to crack down on al-Sadr's militia, his own Badr Organization will likely be next...
Colbert also spoke at length about one of his show’s most controversial segments, “Better Know a District” (BKAD), in which he interviews members of Congress and often lures them into embarrassing verbal bouts...