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Coffee in Seattle always has been about more than a caffeine jolt to start your day, or a cuppa joe to go with a piece of pie. No, in Seattle coffee is an affirmation of individual good taste in a world of supermarket shelf mediocrity, a fragrant bowl of warmth on a morning chilly with rain. Some would like it to be more.

Coffee in Seattle always has been about more than a caffeine jolt to start your day, or a cuppa joe to go with a piece of pie. No, in Seattle coffee is an affirmation of individual good taste in a world of supermarket shelf mediocrity, a fragrant bowl of warmth on a morning chilly with rain. Some would like it to be more.

It was a moment some had waited more than a decade to see: Richard M. Nixon standing once again behind the royal blue Presidential Seal, beaming widely as thousands of friends and admirers cheered. "He's meant a lot to some of us who are older," said Margaret Chambers, 72, of Fullerton. "I used to work for him in Garden Grove going door to door."

It was a moment some had spent more than a decade waiting to see: Richard M. Nixon standing once again behind the royal blue presidential seal, beaming widely as thousands of friends and admirers cheered. "He's meant a lot to some of us who are older," said Margaret Chambers, 72, of Fullerton. "I used to work for him in Garden Grove going door to door."

In the 1950s, the moguls who had ruled Hollywood since its inception finally lost their grip on the studios. With their passing ended an era not only in Hollywood movie-making, but political activism. Last week's excerpt from Times national political correspondent Ronald Brownstein's upcoming book, "The Power and the Glitter: The Hollywood-Washington Connection" (Pantheon), examined how Lew R. Wasserman at MCA Inc. and Arthur B. Krim at United Artists Corp.