Word: hans
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...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...
...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...
...disorientation is the point. From the collapse of the Han Dynasty at the beginning of the 3rd century A.D. until the Tang emperors solidified control in 589, China was both politically and culturally a very messy place. Confederations of mounted nomads from the steppes were ransacking China's northern flank while to the South, Chinese aristocrats tangled with one another. Buddhism was seeping in from India and Islam from Central Asia and the Middle East. But rather than shun this cultural commotion, many Chinese came to welcome it?after all, the interlopers brought along some really cool stuff. Local artisans...
...First up are a few striking examples of that ancient civilization. Much of the first gallery is dominated by a cavalcade of miniature bronze chariots and horsemen. Painstakingly detailed, with detachable saddles on the horses and mobile wheels on the chariots, they give a sense of the authority of Han rulers at their height at the beginning of the 3rd century. Also of interest from this period are pieces of carved jade, examples of an exacting art form that reached its apogee in the Han era. Jade carving was largely abandoned in the period that followed...