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...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 a very mundane, normal life," says the 53-year-old director. "I'm happily married. I'm a reasonable person. But in making a movie, I like to touch the unknown. Sometimes, you get to this scary truth about your own subconscious existence...
...against the euro of $1.43 late Monday. Juncker fears continued depreciation of the dollar will make exports from the euro zone too expensive for outside buyers. Such exports have played a major role in the E.U.'s recent economic recovery. "I will no longer accept that one considers it normal for Europe to accept at its own cost to manage the consequences of the existing global imbalances," he added...
...games and lost 120 that year. I was in heaven, a near normal person again; I could root for the home team while celebrating their canine incompetence. And this experience forged a generation of Mets fans: we were simply happy to be there, aesthetically tuned to each new depredation, grateful for the occasional win. And totally shocked when, somehow, the Metsies suddenly got good and won the World Series in 1969. There was another flash in the 1980s, though the 1986 World Series victory seemed more attributable to the rapacious karma of the vanquished Red Sox. Several hopeful seasons followed...
...generals took control not only of the armed forces but all aspects of politics and the economy as well. In the decades since the takeover, Burma has evolved into a nation where "the military is the state," according to Burmese historian Thant Myint-U. "Army officers do everything. Normal government had withered away...
...Complete preliminary returns for Sunday's vote will likely come in only later tonight, with final official results promised by the end of this week. But in the meantime, Ukraine's political life is clearly in full swing as a normal democratic process. There will be plenty of horse-trading ahead, but most of it will be open and public...