In this articleSBUXPeople seen around the Starbucks coffee store in Shenzhen, China.Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesIn May, it was a $2.5 billion stake in Texas Instruments and a $1 billion-plus position at Johnson Controls. In June came a $2 billion stake in Southwest Airlines and an equally large investment in Japanese conglomerate SoftBank.For a $69.7 billion hedge fund — even by the standards it has set — Elliott Management has operated at a scale and frequency this summer that's given even the ...