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...modesty as he is for his protean talent. It's hard to square volcanic passions, after all, with a man who once told an interviewer that one of his favorite restaurants was KFC. Lee's movies, too, often revolve around the repression of overwhelming emotion. In his wuxia epic, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, swords and fists became stand-ins for everything the martial characters couldn't say. Brokeback Mountain's cowboys suffered for love they could not acknowledge. Even Lee's Hulk was an exploration of suppressed rage, its green marauder an embodiment of the unleashed id. "I lead...
...Kolkata derby, which most recently took place during this mid-August deluge, is an epic contest older than the Spanish civil war waged between Real Madrid and Barcelona and deeper than the glossy rivalries of the money-spinning English Premier League. India, of course, is not a football power - at home, the sport is dwarfed by cricket, which has captured the country's popular imagination and advertising revenue. Despite a few recent successes, the Indian national side is still a minnow in the pool of world football. It's ranked a woeful 145th overall by FIFA, football's global governing...
...made of stranger stuff. We are not like the long-suffering Cubs or Red Sox nations-may they face each other in October, by the way! We have not had a history of squelched Septembers. We've had a couple of disappointing stretch runs, but this is our first epic belly flop. Usually we're gone by Mother's Day. In fact, this is not even close to my greatest baseball disappointment...
...returned home to acclaim as the savior of Pakistani democracy. If that feat is to be repeated, voters would have to be so desperate to end military rule that they would overlook not only any deal she might strike with Musharraf, but also the widespread human rights abuses and epic corruption that prevailed in Pakistan during her last stint in power...
...serve as the hero. He yearns for the love of his former muse and mistress, Margarita. She, in turn, makes a Faustian deal with Satan to reunite with her long lost love. What ensues is absurd, intricate, and absolute unforgettable. The book is simultaneously a fairy tale, an epic, a religious allegory, a political satire, and, primarily, a harrowing romance. Yet, despite it’s amalgam of genres, it always maintains a riveting, almost Chekhovian balance between the hilarious and the tragic. For a book that Bulgakov began writing in 1928, only to be published posthumously in a heavily...