In recent years, Howard Schultz, the founder and chief executive officer of Starbucks, has battled to change how we drink coffee. Now he is engaged in a much tougher mission. Last week in Washington, D.C., the charismatic Schultz took to a platform at a vast investment conference, and made a highly emotional appeal for political reform. More specifically, he repeated a call he first uttered last year - namely that businesses and investors stop funding politicians, unless the politicians pledge to break the poisonous gridlock that is now besetting Washington.
近年來，星巴克(Starbucks)創始人兼首席執行官霍華德?舒爾茨(Howard Schultz)一直在致力于改變人們喝咖啡的方式。如今，他正投身于一項艱巨得多的使命。近日在華盛頓，頗富魅力的舒爾茨在一次大型投資會議上發表講話，強烈呼吁政治改革。更確切地說，他是在重復去年首次提出的主張，即呼吁企業和投資者不再資助政客，除非他們承諾打破目前困擾美國政界的極其有害的僵局。