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If Starbucks is suffering at all from the "red cup" Christmas "controversy," then this piece of news might redeem the business for some.

For all of us who've ever written a tuition check for a college education (ours or our offspring's), this is a pretty sweet shot. Lem Turner, from Illinois, and an incoming freshman at Ball State University, nailed the halfcourt shot in front of 3600 or so classmates the other night, thus insuring that his folks (or student loan officer) wouldn't be cutting a big check for his university matricula