Word: darth
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...closest thing the Pentagon had to Darth Vader during the Reagan years, Richard Perle, then an Assistant Secretary, was beloved by the right for his antipathy toward arms-control pacts and peaceniks in general. Now, just when conservatives are starting to grumble that Bush is going soft on defense, Perle is returning to the battlefield. Pentagon insiders say Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld will soon promote Perle, previously an unpaid member of the 18-person Defense Policy Board, to board chairman. That will give him a Pentagon office in the gilt-edged E-ring, one floor away from Rumsfeld and better...
...stint as an assistant U.S. attorney, and now a partner in a high-powered Washington law firm. Born in Honduras, he'd also be the first Hispanic judge to reach the Appeals Court in the District of Columbia. But one of Estrada's law partners is considered a Darth Vader by the Democratic Party: Theodore B. Olson, Bush's recently confirmed solicitor general who successfully argued W's election case before the U.S. Supreme Court. The D.C. Appeals Court has also been a stepping stone to the Supreme Court for other conservative jurists, such as Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas...
...budget time. Tax cut time. Bush time. Trent Lott wants to get his president a budget deal by Friday, and now he figures his colleagues are going to pay him back for their frivolity. McConnell's Darth Vader helmet is off; he's back to being chairman of the Rules Committee, the setter of the Senate pace. And for McCain - formerly Luke Skywalker - it's probably time to go back to being the Republican who stood next to George W. Bush at the Republican National Convention and forgot he didn't like...
...soldier assigned the job of vanquishing Heinecke. The only painting in Chew's Sukhumvit Road office is a portrait of the ranking officer of the fast-food business, Colonel Sanders. Behind Chew's desk, left over from a KFC-Star Wars promotion, looms a 6-ft. tall statue of Darth Vader wielding his laser. Chew, a former lieutenant in the Singapore army, talks about being a "general'' in this conflict. Still, he could be busted down to buck private if he loses to a no-name pizza company. "My neck is on the block,'' he says, vigorously denying Heinecke...
...empire is ready to strike back. McCain nemesis Mitch McConnell, who jokingly adopted the "Darth Vader" moniker for himself during debate last week, gave his own closing statements as the evening session opened, reiterating at great length all the ways that McCain and Feingold's cure was worse than the disease (if there was a disease at all). But his primary message is simple: He and McCain-Feingold will meet again...