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JABBA THE HUTT Episodes I, IV (special edition), VI --Huge wormlike clan leader from a race of gangsters (the Hutts). Doggedly pursues Solo over a smuggling debt...
SCOTLAND --First among nations to put all its records online; Scots origins www.origins.net/GRO is a must see for anyone with clan ties. Also see www.open.gov.uk/gros/groshome.htm...
...from a different shade of red than the standard communist cadre. The Chinese character for his name means vermilion, the color used on the gates of wealthy people's mansions in old China. Descended from Zhu Yuanzhang, the first Ming-dynasty Emperor (1368-98), the Zhu clan was a big landowner around Changsha in Hunan province, where Zhu was born in 1928. "The Zhu family was very rich," says Zhu Yunzhong, 66, a retired doctor and Zhu Rongji's cousin. "That caused many of them problems after the revolution--even myself...
...Yunzhong lives in Ansha township, 19 miles from the city of Changsha. Ten minutes' walk up the valley from his two-room house he pointed out where the Zhu clan's palace once stood. It had "dozens of rooms" and a covered walkway leading over the hill to the family temple. "We used to say that whichever path you took from here to Changsha, you had to pass over Zhu land," says Yunzhong. The palace was destroyed in an antilandlord campaign in the 1950s, but Zhu's privileged background was not forgotten by Mao's regime...
...think your family holidays are tense, be grateful you're not a member of the Redgrave clan. Last Thanksgiving, while Oscar nominee LYNN REDGRAVE prepared the turkey for a houseful of guests, her manager and husband of 32 years JOHN CLARK decided to break some rather uncelebratory news. It seems that eight years earlier Clark had an affair with his personal assistant, Nicolette. The tryst produced a son, whose paternity remained secret. Then Nicolette got married...to Redgrave and Clark's son Ben, who soon learned he had become his half-brother's stepfather. Ben and Nicolette eventually split...