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FINALLY! SOMEONE STOPS THE SPREAD OF CAPPUCCINOISM O.K. I love Starbucks. I don't lie, so there. I said it. Their frappuccinos on a hot day in August are like manna in the Baked Apple. Sure, some mornings after getting my kids to school - I get a latte or cappucino to get myself going... oh yeah, and a biscotti. I know... I have a terrible coffee addiction. I've been like this since undergrad school. I am working on it. Really. But Starbucks is spreading like fungus. It's everywhere. In the capitol of British Columbia there's a cross-street with a Starbucks on every corner. In London, where tea is king, Starbucks and Burger King were just about everywhere. There's one parked inside my local Target store. Branding? Yes. World Domination? No. However, there are some places Starbucks just should not be. And the Imperial Palace was probably one of them. Starbucks finds Imperial Palace a forbidding market A controversial Starbucks coffee shop in the Forbidde...