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Hidayat Ali's story is one of blackest despair, and unconquerable hope. In late December 2004, the native of Banda Aceh, the capital of Indonesia's Aceh province, withdrew his life savings from the bank - a $40,000 cash payment on a new shop. A few days later, Hidayat was out with his family when he heard news of an earthquake. He rushed home to drop off his family, then went to check on a friend on the other side of town. Minutes later, the waves struck, washing away everything Hidayat held dear: his wife and two children, his house...
...walking up to a starbucks with Howard Schultz when we spot a barista standing in the parking lot, passing 11 cups of coffee through a car window. "I've never seen that," says Schultz, who took over Starbucks in 1987 and transformed it from a six-shop seller of beans into a thread that runs through our social tapestry. He asks the barista what she's doing. She says the drive-through order was so large she decided to bring it out. Schultz waves to the driver to roll down her window--"Where are they going with 11 beverages...
Partly to the alienation of customers. "If I go in there first thing in the morning, it smells like McDonald's, not a coffee shop," says blogger Jim Romenesko, who runs StarbucksGossip.com referring to the egg-based breakfast sandwiches the company started selling a few years ago. When he posted Schultz's Valentine's Day e-mail, Romenesko was shocked by the worldwide media pickup: he thought the things Schultz was saying were obvious since he had heard them so many times before from the Starbucks workers and customers who post to his blog...
...international community, particularly in the United States, where President George Bush has often called Musharraf his best ally in the war on terror. Many saw Musharraf - then a general, as well as President, until he gave up his army post late last year - as a one-stop shop for fighting terrorism in the lawless tribal areas between Pakistan and Afghanistan that are thought to harbor senior members of al-Qaeda. In neighboring Afghanistan, President Hamid Karzai offered cautious congratulations to the new Prime Minister in a statement, but tempered his support with an admonition calling "terrorism and extremism a serious...
Angelo Mozilo Enabling home ownership seems so noble--until lending standards surrender to greed. Under CEO Mozilo, marquee mortgage shop Countrywide helped legitimize the flood of subprime, teaser-rate and no-income-verification loans...