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...KEN JENNINGS, attempting to pose the correct question to the Final Jeopardy answer "Most of this firm's 70,000 seasonal white-collar employees work only four months a year." His wrong response (correct one: What is H&R Block?) ended his record-breaking 74-game winning streak...
...this year through September--may also be a victim of kids growing older at younger ages. Barbie has been badly rattled by Bratz, a line of hip, trendy dolls launched in 2001 by MGA Entertainment. Mattel's turnaround plan for Barbie has entailed everything from a breakup with Ken to trendier fashions to launching a girls' line of Barbie clothing and perfume--even enlisting Hilary Duff to talk her up. For all that, Barbie still seems stuck. She is trying "to out-hooker Bratz," says analyst Sean McGowan of Harris Nesbitt...
...experienced aviation-security agents--is unnecessary and will add delays. "The TSA has no idea what they are getting into," says one airline-industry source. "The airlines get thousands of crank calls a year, and there are thousands more disruptive passengers who turn out to be drunks, not terrorists." Ken Maxwell, a former counterterrorism official who is now vice president of security for JetBlue Airways, says he is "very concerned" that the new TSA rules will hinder security...
...package contains two commentary tracks on the full trilogy: one by "philosophers" Cornel West (who had a small role on the Matrix council) and Ken Wilber, the other by top film critics Todd McCarthy, John Powers and David Thomson, who connects The Matrix to every movie from Cocteau's Orpheus to the Alien quartet. The critics are unanimous in thinking that one Matrix was enough ("If the whole series ends here," Thomson opines at the first film's finale, "you've got nearly a masterpiece") and that some scenes aren't worth remarking on. "Perhaps they'll edit...
...longest winning streak in game-show history ended last week when California real estate agent NANCY ZERG beat Jeopardy!'s human encyclopedia, KEN JENNINGS. The dethroned champ, who is about to get taxed for taking home $2.5 million in winnings, missed a Final Jeopardy question about H. & R. Block. Zerg, a former actress, didn't have long to celebrate after ending Jennings' 74-game streak. She lost on the next show...