Despite effort, Starbucks faces backlash

The coffee king has tried to shed its corporate image, but vandalism in Oregon illustrates the struggle.

William McCall
The Associated Press

PORTLAND, Ore. -- Coffee giant Starbucks has been trying its best to promote socially responsible corporate policy on grower rights and environmental ethics, but it apparently fell on deaf ears in a neighborhood where devotion to social causes runs high.
Arson investigators were called to a new Starbucks store after three windows were broken by some kind of incendiary device shortly before 11 p.m. Tuesday.

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