D-mark would hurt German exports, just when Germany's economy is in the doldrums.
The Obama administration, it seems, has granted an unusual amount of access to the team behind The Hurt Locker (writer Mark Boal and director Kathryn Bigelow) for an upcoming campaign-season film about the mission to kill Osama bin Laden.
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Thursday the Academy announced it would allow all four named producers on The Hurt Locker (Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal, Nicolas Chartier and Greg Shaprio) to accept should the film win.
Still, the cast is expert and formidable, with roles for John Hurt, Tom Hardy, and Mark Strong, and the set decoration is a terrifying reminder of an entire era that devoted itself to brown.
Even a sinewy supporting cast, including William Hurt, Max von Sydow, and Mark Strong, cannot banish the question: when the fun drains out of a legend like Robin Hood, what remains?
Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal - who won Oscars in 2010 for The Hurt Locker - said last month the film depicted "a variety of controversial practices and intelligence methods".
The BBC's Mark Mardell in Washington says the cuts are meant to hurt - they were deliberately designed two years ago to be so brutally painful that politicians of left and right would be forced to agree on a better way of balancing the books.
At Comic-Con Downey took the stage and introduced Mark Ruffalo as The Incredible Hulk, Jeremy Renner (from The Hurt Locker) as Hawkeye and the relatively unknown stars of the upcoming films Thor and Captain America.
Accounting standard-setters have been arm-twisted into relaxing rules that force banks to mark certain assets to market, but in the long run that may hurt confidence in the health of bank balance-sheets, not help it.
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Obama: Mark: You know that the Republicans are using the closing of White House tours to hurt me politically.
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