Chan, 54, is also quite candid about the fact that he doesn't like most of the Hollywood films he has made.

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Shelton is more candid: If your armed forces don't have the capability to carry out their missions, he told Congress this week, you can either increase the capabilities or decrease the missions.

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It wouldn't be much better for Vivendi executives who have been candid about their disinterest in NBC Universal, an asset they've publicly dubbed "non-core"--and, perhaps more poignantly, their desire to off-load it to get "more headroom, " as Vivendi Chief Financial Office Philippe Capron put it at a conference in Spain last week.

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