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...says with a chuckle and a flap of his long, expressive hands. He's remembering his friends, with whom he was sent, aged about 7, to Ethiopia to escape the vicious civil war between Sudan's Christian south, where he was born, and the Muslim north. In Ethiopia, the boys were given books and English lessons, but when the aid agencies weren't looking, the Sudan People's Liberation Army (spla) gave them AK-47s and uniforms and sent them into battle, first in Ethiopia and then in southern Sudan. Jal, a 9-year-old officer with the passion...
...boomers--especially boy boomers--snapped their terrestrial moorings the same way back then. But in the 33 years of space travel that followed--33 years defined by a fallow manned program and two lost shuttle crews--most of them shook off their moon bliss entirely. Not so Hanks...
...kiss the feet of my God ..."), are zealous and antsy for action. His later ones, after he starts going on foot patrol, ducking mortars and witnessing car bombs, are less gung ho, as when his unit shoots into the cab of an oncoming car and hits a teen boy: "I constantly look back on that night...
...clearing houses as they go. Anguished families come rushing out, caught in the cross fire and herded by the soldiers to the relative safety of the edge of town. A little girl cups her ears with her hands and wails each time firing breaks out. A 5-year-old boy gingerly waves a white flag. Insurgents duck and weave across housetops a few blocks away, trading fire as they withdraw back into their nest in the Sarai neighborhood...
Rapunzel is scheduled for a 2008 release. It is to follow next year's fantasy trip Meet the Robinsons, in which a boy is taken in by a wonderfully eccentric family, and, in 2007, the hip, puckish American Dog, about a canine celebrity who thinks he's still on his TV show when he's really stranded in the desert. Those three films have a high standard to meet in the sassy, bouncy Chicken Little. The title character (voiced by Zach Braff) has huge glasses and a studious mien. And, oh, is this chick adorable, whether trying...