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Howard Schultz
Howard Schultz is Chairman, President, & CEO of Starbucks Coffee Company.
Howard Schultz first joined Starbucks in 1982 as director of operations and marketing; at the time, the Seattle company had four stores. After leaving to start his own Il Giornale coffeehouses, he purchased Starbucks in 1987. Inspired by a trip to Italy, Schultz's vision was to create neighborhood cafes where people could meet -- a "third place" between work and home that would foster a sense of community. Today, Starbucks has more than 16,000 stores in over 50 countries.
The company's rapid growth and success were made possible in part by its policy of investing in people. Starbucks was among the first retail companies to offer comprehensive health coverage for both full and part-time workers.
Schultz has received Columbia University's Botwinick Prize in Business Ethics, Notre Dame's Hesburgh Award for Business Ethics, and First magazine's International Award for Responsible Capitalism. He was named one of the top 25 managers by Business Week magazine and in 2004 was recognized by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world. He co-authored the best seller Pour Your Heart Into It: How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time. In 1997, Schultz created the Starbucks Foundation, which encourages young people to create change in their communities.
Chris Wallace
Christopher "Chris" Wallace is an American journalist, currently the host of the Fox Network program, Fox News Sunday. Wallace has won three Emmy Awards, the Dupont-Columbia Silver Baton Award, and a Peabody Award. Wallace has been with Fox News since 2003. As a previous moderator of Meet the Press, Wallace is the only person to date to have served as host/moderator of more than one of the major Sunday political talk shows.
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Monthly journal of literature and opinion, one of the oldest and most respected of U.S. reviews. Published in Boston, it was founded in 1857 by Moses Dresser Phillips. It soon became noted for the quality of its fiction and general articles, contributed by distinguished editors and authors such as James Russell Lowell, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry W. Longfellow, and Oliver Wendell Holmes. In the early 1920s it expanded its scope to political affairs, featuring articles by figures such as Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and Booker T. Washington. In the 1970s increasing costs nearly shut down the magazine; it was purchased in 1980 by Mortimer B. Zuckerman and was sold to the National Journal Group in 1999.
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Tropical evergreen shrub of the genus Coffea, in the madder family, or its seeds, called beans; also the beverage made by brewing the roasted and ground beans with water. Two of the 25 or more species, C. arabica and C. canephora, supply almost all the world's coffee. Arabica coffee is considered to brew a more flavourful and aromatic beverage than Robusta, the main variety of C. canephora. Arabicas are grown in Central and South America, the Caribbean, and Indonesia, Robustas mainly in Africa. The shrub bears bouquets of small white flowers with a jasminelike fragrance. The fruit, 0.5–0.75 in. (13–19 mm) long and red when mature, is called a cherry. Coffee contains large amounts of caffeine, the effects of which have always been an important element in the drink's popularity. Coffee drinking began in 15th-century Arabia. It reached Europe by the mid 17th century and immediately became hugely popular. Coffee is now consumed by about one-third of the world's population.
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