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...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...
...move comes just over six months after HMC's previous chief, Mohamed A. El-Erian announced he would step down. Robert Kaplan, a former vice chairman at Goldman Sachs and a professor at the Harvard Business School, has acted as interim CEO since January 1 and, the University says, will now serve on HMC's board of directors...
...episode inspired McCain's rebirth as a reformer concerned above all with appearance. He successfully worked to outlaw unregulated, six-figure "soft-money" donations to political parties. That was followed by crusades against lobbying access and an extensive corruption investigation against the Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff...
...Japan with fan clubs and small promotions." But the Bosox and A's visit was anything but small. It featured appearances by two of Japan's chief exports: Boston starter Daisuke ("Dice-K") Matsuzaka and his teammate, reliever Hideki Okajima. Furthermore, MLB is in the middle of a six-year $275 million TV contract with Japan's largest advertising firm, Dentsu. Japan's monolithic broadcaster NHK meanwhile has just has announced plans to continue its heavy coverage of American baseball by airing some 270 MLB contests where Japanese stars are playing. That is more than twice as many NPB games...
...warming. Both would do more to inflate Europe's military muscle, pump more cash into joint defense R&D projects and bolster their own border controls. And to better face down global challenges, officials from both countries would meet quarterly to discuss hot-button topics; senior ministers meeting every six months would do the same...