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...bespectacled, mild-mannered pen importer in a Western suburb - and Superspy, working for the Chinese and American governments. Now he's received his hardest mission: babysitting the three children of his next-door neighbor and girlfriend (Amber Valletta) when she leaves 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Spy Next Door: Jackie Chan, Babysitter | 1/16/2010 | See Source »

...good things came in pairs for Harvard, and in the second half of the period, another set of quick goals brought the score...

Author: By Kate Leist, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Big Red Scores in Final Seconds to Force Tie | 1/16/2010 | See Source »

...overly expensive solution, but as negotiations continue between House and Senate leaders over final legislative language, the idea of lessening the Medicaid burden for states is gaining traction. "Senator Nelson's deal has been a blessing to those states like New York that were feeling left out. It brought the issue back into public recognition," says James Tallon, a former New York state assemblyman and current president of the United Hospital Fund, a nonprofit philanthropic group that studies health care in New York. (See 10 players in health care reform...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What if All 50 States Get Ben Nelson's Medicaid Deal? | 1/15/2010 | See Source »

...Still, as the Rosarno riots illustrate, the immigrants are far from accepted by most Italians. Shootings like the ones that sparked the unrest are not uncommon. "We used to learn how to use our guns down there by shooting at dogs," says Saviano, who was brought up in the Naples area. "Now the 14-year-olds shoot at immigrants. It can look like kids fooling around, but it's not; it's target practice." The town's African population responded by burning cars and smashing shop windows, prompting retaliatory attacks by white residents. It was the fourth outbreak of violence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: African Immigrants in Italy: Slave Labor for the Mafia | 1/15/2010 | See Source »

...charges against Jetstar Pacific, in addition to its investigation of Darsilli and Freeman. On Wednesday, state-media reported that Jetstar Pacific had violated maintenance regulations and concealed broken aircraft parts. A Qantas spokesperson said that at all times the planes had met regulatory requirements and that the CAAV brought up only "quality, not safety concerns." Thayer, however, predicts that Vietnam will try and continue to try to find small oversights to "extort" Qantas like they did ABN AMRO more than three years ago. "They just find one little mistake and the foreigner is wrong," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jetstar Detentions Raise Red Flags for Investors in Vietnam | 1/15/2010 | See Source »

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