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...company will also introduce a web site for customers and another for employees to share thoughts with the people who run Starbucks. MyStarbucksIdea.com will initially include about a dozen categories, such as coffee, atmosphere, food, music and social responsibility. People will be able to post, discuss and vote for ideas, such as having a separate line for customers who want to quickly order drip coffee. Forty-eight Starbucks employees will respond to the posts and take suggestions back to management. "Their job is to show up every day and engage with customers about their ideas," says chief technology officer Chris...
...March 14 election for Iran's parliament left conservatives with over 70% of the 290 seats. That was a foregone conclusion; most reformist candidates were banned from taking part in the vote. Yet the election may yet prove a turning point in Iran's domestic politics and in Tehran's long cold war with Washington...
Party grants won’t be back any time this semester, but the money that would have funded them may still go to bolster Harvard’s social scene. The Undergraduate Council’s Financial Committee (FiCom) will vote tonight on a resolution to distribute some of the funds to House Committees (HoCos). According to the proposal, each of the 12 HoCos will receive $1,000, and an additional $366 will go to Dudley House. These figures will be in addition to the money the UC already distributes to HoCos. Traditionally, the Council divides 25 percent...
Feingold was the only Senator to vote against The Patriot Act in October 2001, and was one of 23 Senators to vote against the Iraq War Resolution in 2002. As a member of the Foreign Relations Committee, he has visited Iraq and Afghanistan twice, once with fellow Senators John McCain and Hillary Clinton. Feingold advocates immediate withdrawal of the troops...
...then did a turnout of 60% vote produce a parliament with mostly pro-Ahmadinejad legislators? Is that not then a vote of confidence for the current government? I don't believe that people voted for the government. I think people came to the ballot boxes to vote for their revolution, their state, and their Leader [Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, theocratic Iran's paramount politico-spiritual authority and unquestioned ruler]. That's a point where the West misunderstands us and our elections...