OLYMPUS HAS FALLEN (R16) (120 minutes) Directed by Antoine Fugua Starring: Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart, Morgan Freeman Calling all Steven Seagal, Jean-Claude Van Damme and Sly Stallone fans. Thought your favourite genre of gun-slinging, knife-stabbing, punch-crushing, all-action movie was left for dead in the ’90s Think again
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Chimp Attack Victim Gets Face Transplant
A Connecticut woman who was mauled and blinded by a berserk chimpanzee has received a new face in the third such operation ever performed in the U.S. and is looking forward to chewing her meals again after months of pureed food.
Armed Forces: Quick Kill
Viet Nam is no place for the traditional American rifleman, who prides himself on long-range sharpshooting and an unerringly steady hand. Though infantrymen do get some chances for this, most firefights occur at ranges of 50 ft
The War Against Feminism
This winter’s surprise hit movie offers no marquee names and no special effects, only a small cup of poison for maternal peace of mind. In The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, Rebecca De Mornay plays the Nanny from Hell, who insinuates herself into the home of a trusting family only to wreak havoc on it.
Massive Accounting Fraud Fells WorldCom
Is there anybody out there investors can trust? Wall Street was pondering that today as markets were hammered following last night’s announcement that WorldCom had inflated profits by a staggering $3.8 billion over the past five quarters
French Small Business Booms with Auto-Entrepreneur Plan
“The problem with the French,” former U.S. President George W. Bush purportedly once said in a snarl of disgust, “is they have no word for entrepreneur.” That quote is probably apocryphal — which is a rather good thing for W.
The Queen and Mrs. Obama: Did the First Lady Break Protocol?
The rules are set in stone and so the eagerly watching British media sputtered when the First Lady of the United States, Michelle Obama, briefly put her hand on the back of the Queen Elizabeth II as the two chatted at a reception.