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...Asia. Having been involved in the professional game for more than 35 years, I have seen massive changes in all areas-stadiums, players, spectator comfort and involvement and, of course, TV coverage, which now dictates how the game is run. My team, a proud Premiership club with a fan base exceeding 50,000 every home game, would welcome new investment to enable us to fulfill all our dreams. Malcolm Dix, Honorary Vice President, Newcastle United Football Club, Newcastle Upon Tyne, England...
...many young soldiers fighting beyond the walls of the Green Zone. Those soldiers, I would add, do not have the pleasure of patronizing the bar; they just get to defend it. Cheers to all you carpet-bagging contractors and nonessential embassy employees. And if it gets too hot, just fan yourselves with all the money you're making...
...actually the waiting in line part that the fans love, says Steve Sansweet, director of fan relations for Lucasfilm. "They love to be together, to find comradery and friendship." And, let's face it, to compare their replica lightsabers...
...Celebration IV kicked off with a total-immersion program - a free screening of all six of George Lucas' Star Wars films back-to-back, a 17-hour marathon with intermissions, attended by 3,000 extreme fans. The better knowledge a fan has of the Lucas canon, the better he can appreciate the more esoteric of the Lucasfilm archive exhibits at the convention center. One of the most buzzed about items confirms a piece of Star Wars production lore: it's a clapperboard (that slate they bang together before a movie take starts) that says Revenge of the Jedi, the working...
...step into the fray outside the mosque, people turn to us and smile. "Welcome, welcome," one bearded old man says, bowing his head. Fanning out inside a circle of spectators, the dervishes spin in frenzied circles, sometimes hopping on one foot or leaping across the dusty ground, their robes flaring wildly around them. Robed men circulate among the spectators - other robed men, women wearing the sensuous, cascading traditional dresses called thopes, and the odd group of Westerners with cameras - offering cones of burning incense for people to fan the aromatic smoke toward their faces...