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On the house - Freebies intended for a few are snatched and spread via e-mail and even end up on auction sites Starbucks Coffee Co., the Seattle-based java giant that prides itself on do-gooding, found this week that it can be a pain to do good unintentionally. Free coffee, it seems, comes at a price. The trouble, which has intensified like a caffeine headache, began with what was intended to be a batch of coupons for a few folks in Atlanta. But someone somewhere downloaded the file on the sly and it began popping up on auction sites and in...

I've had this story worked out in my mind for going on twenty years. 1989. But now... I am stuck. I started a book based on it, but I'm no writer, obviously. I constantly re-read and edit, and re-read and edit more. Probably because I've posted part of the story on sites that critique writing. Anyway. I've hit a wall. A large brick wall. I've since stopped editing my own stuff, but try as I might, I can't write another chapter that I'm okay with. How do you, in your experience, get past it? I'll appreciate any help anyone can...

by Mark Finkelstein June 28, 2006 As a veteran Couric watcher, I've recently come to follow [without actually watching] doings at The View, since Katie's replacement Meredith Vieira was for years a member of the show's cast. For those unfamiliar with it, The View is an all-female televised coffee klatsch and gabfest of which Barbara Walters is the creator, partial owner and a co-host. The View has a distinct liberal tint to its patter. And as we know, one of the tenets of feminist theology is that women have a right to whatever kind of body size they want, free...