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Carole Suzuki is a self-professed Starbucks addict. But a tall half-caf with hazelnut syrup isn't the only thing she's fixating on at her local coffee spot. The 40-year-old mother of two from Culver City, Calif., also satisfies her aural cravings there, frequently picking up a compilation CD or maybe a new album from the likes of jazz singer Madeleine Peyroux. "I won't make a special trip to a record store," she says, riffling through a stack of discs. "But I've bought more than 20 Starbucks compilations, and they're awesome...
Before Denis Leary was a fire fighter on FX, he was a cop on ABC. The 19 episodes of The Job fall further on the "-edy" side of dramedy than those of Rescue Me, but their gallows humor is much the same. As Mike McNeil, a boozing, cough-syrup-guzzling, philandering detective, Leary charms through sheer insolence...
When I came down with a hacking cough last week, I headed to the Harvard University Health Services (UHS) pharmacy in the Holyoke arcade for some free cough syrup. Watching CNN on the overhead television while I waited in line, it occurred to me that I was getting what would be my last UHS cold pack. An unaccountable sadness overcame me. It was mostly unwarranted—free antihistamines are nothing to sneeze at (ho!), but they’re hardly worth waxing maudlin over. But my last UHS cold pack was, I realized, just one in a series...
Coke's 500 U.S. bottlers felt the wrath of consumers most directly. The bottlers, who are mainly independent businessmen, take syrup sold by the company, mix it with carbonated water, and ship the finished product to stores and other vendors. They are thus the brand's local distributors. Some recalled being stopped on the street in recent weeks by angry and argumentative Coke drinkers. "The consumer resented the fact that we put a flavor out there and said. 'This is what you're going to like,' " observed Frank Barren, corporate secretary of Rome Coca-Cola Bottling in Georgia...
...will be a major problem. Even though they are overjoyed by the return of old Coke, many bottlers are already apprehensive. "This is not going to be easy," says Sandy Williams, president of Corinth Coca-Cola Bottling Works in Mississippi. "We're only set up to handle one finished syrup at a time...