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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Star Wars Saved My Life | 5/1/2005 | See Source »

...This multiparty coalition of about 270 Diet members was co-founded in 2001 by young, influential lawmakers, including former defense chief Shigeru Ishiba and Seiji Maehara, a member of the primary opposition Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ). A passel of hotly contested proposals to broaden Japan's ability to dispatch its Self-Defense Forces, say many lawmakers, passed into legislation only because Ishiba and Maehara worked together to break down interparty rivalries. Then there's Ichita Yamamoto, a 47-year-old LDP member and a graduate of Georgetown University, who says that 70-80% of the newly elected parliamentarians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Standing Their Ground | 4/25/2005 | See Source »

...agent, and the kidnaping of his wife is an act of belated (and misdirected) revenge for an operation that cost the lives of a Communist master-spy's family two decades earlier. The Lloyds have not reclaimed their luggage at the Paris airport before Walter is forced to dispatch a thug sent to murder him. In a matter of hours he is giving Junior, who has the innocent courage, clumsiness and distractibility of a puppy, a much needed basic course in espionage field operations. It is clear that being a spy is rather like riding a bicycle: once you have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: What Daddy Did in the Cold War TARGET | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

...Fallujah," saying a soldier has been burned in an explosion minutes before, and is being flown by helicopter to the combat hospital in Balad. An hour later, a physician in Balad calls Holcomb, saying he's putting the patient on a plane to Germany. At that point, Holcomb can dispatch a burn team to Landstuhl to bring the soldier back to the Army's specialized facility in Texas. "He's here 24 hours after being wounded," he says with amazement. Landstuhl is now a crucial stop-off point, where the details of each injury are compiled in a dossier that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Emergency Room | 3/20/2005 | See Source »

...publishing on the Internet has its risks, as Brock Meeks learned. Meeks, a reporter by day for Communications Daily in Washington, by night publishes an electronic broadsheet called CyberWire Dispatch, in which he tells readers what he thinks is really going on. Last April he investigated an Internet advertisement offering $500 or more just for receiving junk E-mail and uncovered what he called a bait-and-switch scheme operated by "a slick direct-mail baron" in Ohio. He wrote a story headlined JACKING IN FROM THE P.T. BARNUM PORT and dispatched it to the Net. He was promptly sued...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Battle for the Soul of the Internet | 3/18/2005 | See Source »

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