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...ULLMANN: I think so too, because Marianne in Scenes from a Marriage is a kind of sane and normal woman. And I think she still is: an ordinary, nice woman who sees and can be trusted on what she sees. She is like a Greek chorus...
They are the lumpen jihadists. "Today Europe is facing a Europeanized form of jihad," says Eric Denécé, director of the French Center of Intelligence Research in Paris. "These are young men who were born and grew up in Europe. They look like normal Europeans; they sound like normal Europeans; and they harness this seething anger and sense of righteous outrage in a manner adapted to what they see as jihad in Europe." While there is some evidence that the bombing of four Madrid trains on "3/11"--March 11, 2004--was inspired by seasoned radicals who had been...
...Americans often react to crises with action and emotion. They see a problem and want to fix it. Brits' reflexive instinct at such times is often calm and steady endurance. In London last week, the immediate quiet was perhaps the most striking thing--followed by an insistence on normality. "Work's over, but there's little chance of getting home right now," one Brit e-mailed me. "Most of us are just going to go to the pub until the traffic has died down. It's not callousness or indifference to carry on as normal; it's quiet defiance...
According to the MBTA, operating the Night Owl was, financially, a losing proposition—even more so than normal bus and subway services, both of which hemorrhage large amounts of money each year...
...almost normal. Aside from three stocky policemen posted outside the tube station, their tall helmets and fluorescent yellow jackets visible from the end of the street, it was business as usual at Mile End, just two stops away from a blast yesterday where seven of the day?s 50-plus fatalities took place...