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...products and rubs off on customers. Even if you're buying fat-marbled T-bones and Camembert cheese, you're surrounded by colorful fruits and vegetables and preservative-free whole-grain breads, all lovingly displayed and lighted in a store designed to make you feel good. Says CEO John Mackey: "We've tied together the concepts of food as pleasure and food as healthy...
...does it better than Whole Foods. Its co-founder, Mackey, 48, is a six-time college dropout who grew up on TV dinners, got bitten by the health-foods bug in his 20s and built his business by combining the concepts of health-foods store and gourmet market. Mackey is the son of an accounting professor, and despite his left-leaning roots, he is a carnivorous capitalist. Starting with a single Whole Foods store in Austin in 1980, he took 12 years to expand to five outlets. But after taking his firm public in 1992, he steadily opened new stores...
Marketing major Jonathan Mackey, who graduated in December from Butler University in Indianapolis, Ind., tried to compete for jobs against experienced sales professionals and M.B.A.s, and is now awaiting medical clearance for the Peace Corps. "My friends aren't doing a whole lot better," he says. "It's a relief to know it's not just...
...Mackey, though, is definitely not a cop you've seen on TV before. In the pilot of FX's astonishing The Shield (Tuesdays, 10 p.m.), he brutalized a suspect to find a kidnapped girl, then murdered a fellow Los Angeles cop who was about to rat on him and his antigang Strike Team for corruption. By this week's season finale, he has become the most memorable, divisive and hard-to-pin-down character of the TV season--and his series, a lesson in the difference between network and cable TV making...
...Sarah O. Mackey, associate director of alumni affairs and development communications, said her office would not specify the exact amount of the gift...