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...Kansas City, Mo., that summer of Star Wars. I was an incipiently tortured child who had crushes on most of the boys in the neighborhood. That was confusing--to me as well as most of the boys in the neighborhood--but my mounting uncertainty found a clarifying counterpoint in Han Solo. When I was playing with the neighbor kids, I would adopt a sarcastic, daring Solo persona. I didn't quite get Lucas' hieratic Jedi myths or his nearly liturgical lightsaber duels. But Solo's weapons--his blaster and his mouth--those I got. I would charge through our house...
...released in May 1977. I don't remember the first time I saw it, but I do remember that I forced my mom to take me so many times that she eventually began to sleep through it. Sometimes I would poke her before one of the more exhilarating moments--Han Solo killing the bounty hunter Greedo; Han making the jump to light speed in his jalopy, the Millennium Falcon; Han doing just about anything--and her eyes would momentarily flutter. I was so astonished she could sleep through the movie that I was worried something might be seriously wrong with...
...favorite part of the film was when Solo and Skywalker break into Detention Block AA23 to rescue Leia. The movie is coiled so tightly at this moment that I would nearly burst from my seat. Han, Luke and Chewbacca dispatch the Imperial soldiers with laser fire, and then Solo answers a beeping intercom...
...order for the six-party talks to restart, there should be the right justifications and conditions. This means an explicit apology from the United States for the 'outpost of tyranny' remark." HAN SONG RYOL, deputy chief of North Korea's U.N. mission, calling for the U.S. to retract Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's comments on the Hermit Kingdom and to agree to discuss mutual nuclear disarmament...
...APPOINTED. HAN DUCK-SOO, 55, veteran South Korean bureaucrat and supporter of open market economic policies; as the country's new finance minister; in Seoul. Han replaced Lee Hun-jai, who resigned last week, and promised to follow a similar economic strategy as his predecessor. "I will do my best to assure markets [of consistency], revive the economy and establish systems for an advanced Korea," Han said. The government hopes to achieve 5% economic growth this year...