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...There are extraneous scenes - namely Lopez's wrestling with a backyard raccoon problem - and an obviously fabricated character, Mary, who is simultaneously Lopez's editor, his ex-wife and his romantic interest. Thankfully, she's played by Catherine Keener, so the implausibility almost doesn't matter. Downey approaches Lopez as a sort of journalistic Michael Clayton, swapping George Clooney's suits for sweatshirts, and he's in perfect control of this bruised, cynical but good-hearted character. Though there are moments when Foxx's Ayers veers toward the puppyish, overall, it's a touching performance, and the best thing...
...Apple and RIMM results are an example of why brands matter and why companies are willing to work to develop them by making huge investments which can stretch over decades. Apple wasn't much of a brand until it introduced the iPod in 2001, but the firm was around for a long time before then. RIMM and the Blackberry are young in the brand Hall of Fame, a group that is dominated by Coca-Cola (KO), IBM (IBM), Microsoft (MSFT), and GE (GE). Interbrand, the Rolls Royce of global brand research, has Apple and Blackberry on its list...
...fixation on athletics? What makes sacrificing classes for 20 hours of practice each week any different from 20 hours at rehearsal or, for that matter, any non-academic use of a student’s time? Josephine R. Potuto, a co-author of the 2006 study, is a law professor at the University of Nebraska and the chair of the NCAA Division I Committee on Infractions. An outspoken critic of the escalation in college athletics, Potuto points out that unlike with any other activity, the university itself plays a dominating role in taking students away from their studies...
...that we'll probably ever know. Successful new inventions are unlikely to appear in shops anytime soon, lest friends and foes alike get hold of the technological wizardry. "Whether or not we'll ever get to see any of this [technology], that's a different matter," says Julia Wing, director of Spymaster, a London-based supplier of clever surveillance and communications tech to British government departments. (See pictures of Ian Fleming...
...helped facilitate communication—but communication with whom? While we have been able to connect more easily with, say, Christina Aguilera or total strangers from the other side of the globe we meet on MySpace or in chat rooms, we have been separated from the people that matter. According to a Stanford study, those who use the Internet frequently—an estimated 31 percent of the U.S. population—spend an average of 70 minutes fewer per day interacting with family than those who use the Internet less frequently...