Baristas at Starbucks are probably really happy they don't have to write "race together" on your latte any more. CEO Howard Schultz ended the effort Sunday, probably because of a deluge
of criticism and mockery about a program that turned counter workers in the chain's 20,000 stores into ersatz race mediators. Forum discussions and special sections in USA Today will,
however, continue. Wrote Schultz in a memo, "We didn't expect universal praise." Probably not derision, either.
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