Cautionary Tale: How Starbucks Lost Its EdgeRE: Cautionary Tale: How Starbucks Lost Its EdgeNatural occurrence. This happens to any organization as it goes through its life cycle. Can it be reversed? Maybe. If it returns to a management of coffee nerds instead of professional managers or legume enumerators and can...
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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Propelled by positive reviews and a nationwide book tour, How to Make Love Like a Porn Star: A Cautionary Tale, the sizzling memoir by adult entertainment legend Jenna Jameson will debut September 5th at number nine on The New York Times non-fiction bestseller list, a monumental achievement...
Edinburgh Festival 2008 Book Festival HOWARD JACOBSON The novelist and Independent columnist talks about love, desire and marriage. Charlotte Square Gardens, today, 11.30pm (0845 373 5888) Dance DORIAN GRAY ...
THURSDAY Vanessa-Mae - the Making of Me 9pm BBC1 A nature vs nurture assessment of the abilities of the nimble- fingered violinist, the youngest to record the Tchaikovsky and Beethoven Concertos. The programme asks if she was born with a musical gift. ...
The concrete dragon; China's urban revolution and what it means for the world. Campanella, Thomas J. Princeton Architectural Pr. 2008 334 pages $35.00 Hardcover HT384 The current "Urban Revolution" in China over the last...
A teacher who is psyched about engaging struggling students learns that bureaucracy is more important than pedagogy. Each year in the state of Indiana, librarians, teachers and students compile a list of 20 nominated books for the Eliot Rosewater Award, named after a character in the work of...
Patients of University of Utah hospitals and clinics were breathing easier Wednesday after authorities announced that stolen data tapes containing the personal information of some 1.5 million patients have been recovered. The culprits apparently lacked the know-how or equipment to decode the tapes, which contained Social...
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Noting that contributing to global warming would be "ironic, not to mention wrong," the producers of An Inconvenient Truth announced in June 2006 that they had given $496.80 to NativeEnergy, a well-regarded carbon-offset company. The firm, in turn, said the movie was providing...
The teen years pose challenges, but they also can yield rewards. The Secret Life of the American Teenager explores the former, a 15-year-old's pregnancy. ABC Family hopes the new drama (Tuesday, 8 ET/PT) brings the latter: more attention and viewers, especially teens and young adults. ...
Dr. Nicolas Jabbour, medical director of Integris Baptist's Nazih Zuhdi Transplant Institute, said medical periodicals often tell a cautionary tale. "American College of Surgeons writes about depression and a sense of uselessness after retiring from such a job," Jabbour said. ...
10,000 B.C. **1/2, 2008, Warner, PG-13, $29; Blu-ray, $36 More amusing than The Happening and The Incredible Hulk put together, but it won't keep this Mesolithic mess from being a fixture on year-end worst lists, judging from the reviews. With: fakey-fun CGI creatures, hoards...
WALL·E **** out of four Who would guess that a movie with minimal dialogue and a love story between robots could emerge as one of the best films of the summer? And who would think a tale could be both post-apocalyptic and charming? ...
'The surf is up and so is the Paskowitz family," says the narrator of a '70s TV news report at the beginning of Surfwise . And indeed they are: nine kids - eight boys and a girl - scampering down to water's edge with surfboards in tow, led...
GERALD, Mo. -- Bill Jakob arrived in this small town with an offer to help police curb the community's methamphetamine problem. He had a badge and a gun and told officials he had previously worked as an anti-drug agent in Illinois. He even...
A combination of pragmatism, dedication and steel makes them masters of major tournaments and big favourites tonight, writes James Lawton at Euro 2008 Of all the stories of Euro 2008 the one most girded in the epic is surely Turkey's. They keep losing...
Cisco Sued for Multiple Contractual Breaches IRVINE, Calif. -- An Orange County judge has denied Cisco Systems, Inc.'s motion for summary judgment on contract claims in a lawsuit filed against it by Infra-Comm Corporation, a San Juan Capistrano-based reseller of communications systems. The...
Battle over benefits for home-based care A battle over how Maryland should care for its indigent older and disabled residents was waged Thursday in the Court of Appeals, with the state defending its decision to deny Medicaid benefits for a mentally and physically...
-- Loser: The price of jewelry may be hard to digest, but we're guessing it's not as hard as the jewelry itself. Thieves can be sneaky, but when 41-year-old Norma Porchas was charged this week with allegedly swallowing two gold bracelets at a Salt Lake pawn...
Federal and state rules regarding electronic discovery may still be evolving, but the consequences for falling short of the new standards are already real. In an opinion lawyers and observers have labeled "a cautionary tale" and a "wake-up call" to members of the bar, a federal judge...
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