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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Infernal Affair | 10/4/2007 | See Source »

...beach is also being built near Maymyo, where the Defense Services Academy is located. While the military élite bunkers itself in rarefied surroundings, ordinary Burmese are suffering. Educational funding has dried up, and the World Health Organization estimates that the junta annually spends a maximum of $10 per person on health care. As a result, killer diseases like malaria and tuberculosis run rampant, and roughly half a million people are infected with HIV. Nearly one-third of children under five years of age are malnourished; of those who are healthy, some rural youngsters are forced to toil as child...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: General Command | 10/4/2007 | See Source »

...Judas Factor: internal strife, eventual forgiveness, immortalization in liturgy/musical 5) The Bull-dozer KO Park a bull-dozer outside of Sever. After section, bulldoze opponent, thereby literally crushing her. Effectiveness Factor: 10 Jail Time: 10 to life So the next time you see the world’s worst person hogging a table at the Greenhouse, wearing a stupid costume on the shuttle circa 11 p.m., or swiping into freshmen dorms, just smile demurely and say, “Whatever. I’ll see you in section...

Author: By Aria S.K. Laskin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: You WIll Be Crushed: FM's Guide to Throwin' 'Bows in Class | 10/3/2007 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oh, My Mets! | 10/3/2007 | See Source »

...nasty tone of derision. Right now, these rhetorical bunker-busters are mainly directed across the aisle - at front-runners in the other party in order to bolster one's own partisan bona fides. At the last Democratic debate, Joe Biden said that Rudy Giuliani was "the most uninformed person on American foreign policy now running for President." And in a blisteringly partisan speech to the Young Republican National Convention in July, Mitt Romney first compared Hillary Clinton to Karl Marx, and then claimed that "with her economic plan, Hillary Clinton couldn't be elected president of France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Candidates Attack | 10/3/2007 | See Source »

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