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...genre end with that rosy image, in part because their makers are reluctant to bum out their audience. James Cameron must have been tempted to end his film with Leonardo DiCaprio's Jack surviving the ship's sinking and enjoying a long life with Kate Winslet's Rose. But Cameron realized that by killing off Jack, he was raising the movie's stakes from domestic platitude to classic romantic tragedy. Jack's death stamped both finality and immortality on the lovers' shipboard tryst. Because he is gone, their love will live forever...
Moving to Japan's stock market, which has been comatose for years, are conditions taking shape for its bull to reawaken? I think they are. Consumer confidence in July rose, exceeding expectations, and there's been a sharp acceleration in industrial production. Also, there is an election in another week, and it's pretty clear that the LDP [Japan's ruling party] is going to lose. The new party that's coming in intends to put through programs that will increase the amount of money that the average Japanese [person has], thereby stimulating personal spending. For example, it intends...
...reaction to Thursday's revelation in Germany and France - Europe's first- and second-largest economies respectively - tended to echo Moec's upbeat bottom line that the two countries had "extricated themselves from recession, which can only be good." Stock markets sure thought so: London's FTSE 100 index rose 1.3% on the news, and Wall Street followed indices elsewhere in Europe with more modest gains. (See pictures of TIME's Wall Street covers...
...sweet-faced earnestness that is unusual in politics; after he was elected to the state legislature from West Miami at age 29, a state official, mistaking Rubio for an intern, sent him to make copies. But he's also tenacious and ambitious, and with Bush's support, he rose to the speaker's chair in 2007; the ceremony was broadcast live in Cuba on Radio Marti. (Read TIME's cover story on Republicans in distress...
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