Congress has reached a compromise on a spending bill to keep the government running through September. It cuts $38.5 billion in discretionary and mandatory programs, with cuts in domestic policy and human affairs being some of the deepest. Recorded in April, Jim Wallis, president of the Christian social action group Sojourners, claims the budget is a moral document and began fasting shortly after the April compromise in protest of proposed cuts.
In 2008, in the midst of the recession and a period of decline unprecedented in the company's history, chairman Howard Schultz—feeling that the soul of his brand was at risk—returned to the CEO post, eight years after stepping down. Following an extensive transformation of the company, he has written a new book detailing the brand's journey to recovery, Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life without Losing Its Soul.
As a longtime media strategist, Frank Luntz has helped craft many sound bites and political phrases during his career, from "death tax" to the "Contract with America." In Win: The Key Principles to Take Your Business from Ordinary to Extraordinary, Luntz argues that careful messaging is as essential to business as it is to politics.
This year marks Aretha Franklin's 50th anniversary in show business! To celebrate, her first label—Columbia Records—is releasing her groundbreaking works from 1960 to 1965 in a 12-disc box set called Take A Look: Aretha Franklin Complete on Columbia.
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