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...town to care for her father. "I brought down dictators," Bob says to one of his fellow spies. "How tough can three kids be?" He soon finds out; but what Bob undergoes is a day on the couch compared with what Chan suffers at the clumsy directorial hands of Brian Levant (Beethoven, The Flintstones) and arrant typing fingers of the screenwriters, two of whom are responsible for the all-time-awful Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector. It's as if Jackie had committed some terrible crime, and this was the sentence. (See 10 Questions for Jackie Chan...
...times, the top executives did contend that regulation might have been too loose leading up to the crisis, but they stressed that that was no longer the case. All thought that the government needed the power to resolve large troubled institutions. Brian Moynihan, CEO of Bank of America, said the resolution authority could be based on the way the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. closes down smaller banks, which involves auctioning off troubled institutions to stronger competitors, often with a government guarantee for risky assets. Also questioned by the panel was Morgan Stanley's chairman, John Mack. (See 25 people...
...hearing. First up to be accused of causing massive foreclosures, nearly bankrupting our financial system and robbing us all of our retirement savings: Wall Street CEOs. On Wednesday, four top financial executives are scheduled to testify in front of the commission, including Bank of America's recently appointed chief Brian Moynihan, Goldman Sachs' Lloyd Blankfein, JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon and Morgan Stanley's John Mack...
...based applications. These let you create documents and spreadsheets (Google Apps, Zoho, Microsoft Office Online), listen to music (Pandora, iLike, Lala), edit photos (Piknik, Photoshop.com and check your voice mail (Google Voice) online. "But the pace of innovation in the browser space wasn't keeping up," says Brian Rakowski, director of product management for Google Chrome. "So we decided to start designing a browser from the ground up to see if we could build one that is faster, easier to use and fundamentally more secure." So far, more than 40 million users have downloaded it. (See the top 10 iPhone...
...Twelve percent may not sound like a lot," says Brian Wansink, professor of marketing at Cornell and director of its food and brand lab. "But this goes on every four to eight hours for up to four days. So it really adds up to the point of ineffectiveness or even danger." Increasing numbers of over-the-counter medications come with dosing cups, but many people lose them, don't like them or don't know how to use them and simply feel more comfortable with a spoon...