Word: vader
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...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...
...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's assertion...
...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...
...Colin Powell's persona invites instinctive trust. We feel safe in his hands as we watch him on TV, and find ourselves subliminally imagining James Earl Jones - not the Darth Vader version, but rather the stern but loving father figure of "Field of Dreams" or "The Lion King." That quality which once made Powell so attractive as a possible presidential candidate will probably also make his confirmation hearing one of those festivals of bipartisan deference usually reserved only for Alan Greenspan...
...claim the starring role. Picking up the part from JAKE LLOYD, who starred in Episode 1, Christensen will, over the course of the next two films, become involved with Queen Amidala, played by Natalie Portman, and his character will eventually devolve into the ponderously breathing, funereally attired Darth Vader. "It's awesome to portray a character who becomes Vader," says Christensen. "I'm getting ready to go to the dark side...