Word: yoda
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...years, Star Wars-linked merchandise has grossed a galactic $9 billion. "What was different about Star Wars was that everything you saw on the screen you could get a toy of," says Diane Levin, professor of education at Wheelock College. In the early 1980s, at the height of Yoda figurine hysteria, the toy and entertainment industries successfully lobbied for the deregulation of children's television, allowing them to base animated TV shows around popular toys like G. I. Joe and the Care Bears. Only recently, however, did Hollywood start producing toy-inspired movies for theaters. As the cost of making...
Some wise hands in Washington have learned to avoid secrets at all cost. Last month David Margolis, a 40-year veteran of the Justice Department nicknamed "Yoda" because of his deep authority in the building, testified that he actively avoided learning details of sub-rosa White House involvement in the U.S. Attorney firings...
...meantime, on the Jedi Training Stage, a new generation of fans was indoctrinated. A Jedi Master handed children brown Jedi robes and instructed them in lightsaber fighting skills. Yoda's teachings are refreshingly different from the "everybody gets a trophy" culture of little league. "Do or do not. There is no try," the Jedi Master told his young charges, before they lunged, ecstatically, at Darth Vader...
...Swagger a rare ally (pretty, stalwart Kate Mara, who played Heath Ledger's daughter in Brokeback Mountain) once he's on the run from Washington, D.C., to Tennessee, which he calls "the patron state of shootin' stuff." (The always authoritative Levon Helm has an excellent cameo here as a Yoda of gun lore.) His other helper is a rookie FBI agent (World Trade Center's Michael Pena), who does a lot of Internet research before he joins Swagger and gets to blow up some traitors...
...teaching one. Although she is originally from Ghana, Nkyekyer’s native language, Akan, didn’t give her a leg up while studying here. Nkyekyer started from scratch, gradually acquiring the textbook skills that made her capable to teach this year. The student became the TF. Yoda would be proud.Pillsbury, who is also a Crimson photographer, also learned Swahili as a second language, but in Tanzania, not Cambridge. After graduating from high school in Los Angeles, she spent a gap year volunteering for an NGO called Students Partnership Worldwide. She became fluent enough during those months...