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Motley Fool Money - Motley Fool Money: 05.27.2011

Google introduces tap-to-pay technology. Hedge fund manager David Einhorn calls for Microsoft CEO Steve Balmer to step down. And Krispy Kreme reports its tenth consecutive quarter of same-store-sales growth. Our analysts tackle those topics and share some stocks on their radar. Plus, corporate governance expert and film critic Nell Minow talks whistleblowers, Netflix, and must-see movies.

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Start the Week - 23/05/2011

Andrew Marr talks to the former British ambassador, Sherard Cowper-Coles, about the failures of Western policy in Afghanistan, and how diplomacy would have been a better option than the gun. In 2003 Baha Mousa was arrested by the British Army in Basra, in Iraq. Two days later he was dead. Richard Norton-Taylor sifts through all the evidence to bring the public inquiry into his death to the stage. David Pryce-Jones asks what motivates those who take up foreign causes, to the detriment of their own country, in Treason of the Heart. And the philosopher Angie Hobbs turns to the Greek Gods to untangle modern ideas of heroism and bravery.

Producer: Katy Hickman.