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...battle between the two--dubbed council wars by local comics who portrayed Vrdolyak as a Darth Vader and Washington as a Luke Skywalker who destroyed the "machine star" by hitting at its core, the mayor's office--had its final clash this past year when Washington showed that he had enough political clout to maintain his Democratic endorsement for Mayor. He then handily won the general election, defeating a Republican and Vrdolyak...
...heart of Seoul was turned into a combat zone. Tens of thousands of demonstrators roamed through the capital's streets and squares, unfurling banners and shouting slogans protesting the rule of President Chun Doo Hwan. Once again they were pursued relentlessly by squads of police wearing their familiar Darth Vader helmets and brandishing chest- high shields. Once again the stench of pepper gas, fired in prodigious quantities by the police, wafted into the early summer night, an acrid testament to the scenes of defiance...
Friends and critics call Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard Perle by many names -- Prince of Darkness, Darth Vader, evil genius -- and the witty Perle loves them all. By title, Richard (as he is invariably referred to in Washington) is merely one of eleven Assistant Secretaries, a third-echelon Pentagon aide. In practice, Perle is widely acknowledged to be a major architect of U.S. arms-control policy, though to his opponents he is a bureaucratic Machiavelli who deviously torpedoed all reasonable prospects for agreement...
...simply left the world of being a hoodlum" and worked his way through a number of degrees to a vice presidency at the University of Texas, El Paso; there he earned a dual reputation as an innovative manager and cheerful nut who liked to dress up as Darth Vader. At Evergreen, in addition to making appearances as the Pink Panther and the Easter Bunny, Olander has chopped some administrative positions and taken hold of a budget that, while hardly lavish ($7 million), amounts to a vote of confidence from once skeptical lawmakers. The faculty stands behind him and supports...
Luke Skywalker would be dazzled. Darth Vader would be downright intimidated. Right here on earth, and not in any distant galaxy, a new kind of war is escalating between technological stars IBM and AT&T. By the end of the century, the way that Americans get all sorts of information, from television programs to bank-account balances, could be changed. Between them, IBM and AT&T dominate the U.S. computer and telecommunications industries. Both have long itched to invade each other's markets, but not until now have they faced off with arsenals so fully loaded...