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...convert their suite’s bathroom into a double. They will grin and bear the pain of using the floor as a desk, since the College will have sold off their dorm furniture to pay for bigger touch-screens in the dining halls. And they’ll smell terrible, since Harvard will have shut off their shower to conserve water and make the campus “greener.” But at least they will have four glorious years in Harvard Square, that mecca of neighborhood banking and tortilla-wrapped fast food...
...showing up at an IRA "call house" every day after school. She was never sure what the night's mission would be, but often as not it involved delivering a car bomb. She was (and still is) beautiful, and easily passed through the British checkpoints. "You never forget the smell of sodium nitro benzene" - the improvised explosive used by the IRA in the early days. "It smelled like marzipan...
...restoring the smell of freshly ground coffee to stores and working in visual cues about how Starbucks sources its coffee--Roberts is jazzed about a series of prints from artists in Rwanda, where Starbucks is opening a regional farmer-support center--the company is trying to re-emphasize its heritage. "We haven't been as good at telling our story as we once had in the past," says Schultz. "The good news is, unlike many other companies, this is not a story that has to be invented. It's real...
...large green compost bin--which, I may point out, is clearly made of plastic--and told me to throw all kinds of stuff in there. This stuff would then sit in our kitchen. Rotting. I was starting to understand that there are reasons besides shunning deodorant that hippies smell...
...position he originally left in 2000 for a seat on the board of directors. Since then, the company has announced a number of major changes. On January 30, the company said it would stop selling breakfast sandwiches (in response to criticism that the odor covered up the smell of coffee), slow its rapid pace of opening stores in the U.S., and no longer report comparable-store sales to Wall Street - a sign that the company is serious about investing for long-term growth and not catering to short-term concerns from investors...