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Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz will host a national forum to give voice to ordinary people who, like him, are disgusted by politicians’ hyper-partisanship.
If Schultz thinks Congress is acting rude, wait till he gets a load of those guys from Seattle in green-and-gold shirts at his forum.
Co-dependent: A family psychologist says parents should not get heavily involved in their children’s homework, and instead tell kids to do the work themselves. He contends that parental micro-management of homework results in overly dependent kids who lack basic study skills.
A reasonable argument, but one The Buzz believes will be lost on adults who would eagerly spend their evenings poring over the likes of “MathScape: Seeing and Thinking Mathematically.”
Unleash the beast: Ten years ago today, the George W. Bush administration scuttled a bid by the Bill Clinton Justice Department to break up Microsoft.
The Bush team’s decision left Microsoft free to squash smaller competitors, such as the struggling Apple Inc. and a fledgling Internet company called Google.
— Mark Carlson, Herald staff
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