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...Next Door, has a double life too. He's both Clark Kent - a 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...
...this respect, NBC has a lot in common with print media. I recently talked with a neighbor annoyed about the number of typos she said she's been seeing in the New York Times. The editors are probably stretched thin, I said; the Times just went through a big round of layoffs. That's terrible, she agreed. Anyway, she said, she was going to drop her weekday subscription. Why should she pay all that money and get typos...
...counting on progress in U.S. trade to balance fears over Taiwan's increasingly close economic ties with China. Taiwan and China are set to talk about a key trade agreement early this year, which has caused concern among the opposition, which advocates a more distanced relationship with its neighbor...
...anti-adult attitude extends, ultimately, to every grownup in the film. Jean Smart is a good comic actress, but what can you do when you're written as a one-dimensional slattern, held in contempt by your hipster child? Even the best of the grownups, the friendly hippie-dippie neighbor (Fred Willard) is something of a grotesque. This isn't so much youth in revolt as youth in disdain, which seems ironic, given how much Nick and Sheeni long to have access to the ways of the adult world, including travel and freedom...
...Qaeda blew up the U.S. embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, in 1998. In recent months, the government has received U.S. funding for its antiterrorism activities, which include training Somali security forces. The country is increasingly seen as a bulwark against the Islamic extremists in Somalia, its neighbor to the north...