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Retired Air Force General Brent Scowcroft, the Republican foreign-policy Yoda who has worked for five of the past seven Presidents, rarely raises his voice in public. But just a few months after he broke with George W. Bush on Iraq, urging him to stay focused on the war against terrorism before going after Saddam Hussein, Scowcroft is speaking out again. This time he's tangling with an old colleague from the Nixon and Ford years, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld...
...popular notion of V.S. Naipaul is of a remote and forbidding figure, part Yoda, part Brahmin, author of sour essays and dense novels, whose favorite riposte is "I told you so." But this detachment is recent, an effect of various elevations: the knighthood in 1990, the Nobel Prize for Literature last year. The truth is that he has spent much of his life enmeshed in current events, making a living as a freelancer and giving permanent form to subjects such as teacup tempests in Anguilla and Grenada. It's hard these days to imagine Naipaul following the Norman-Mailer...
...when the now computerized Yoda finally reveals his martial artistry, the film ascends to a kinetic life so teeming that even cranky adults may rediscover the quivering kid inside. That child doesn't think about the labor that went into all these cybersaber dances. He doesn't think at all. He just stares up in innocent awe, at one with movie magic...
...galaxy far, far away." Agreed a New Yorker: "A little comic relief is frequently necessary for survival, when we consider the times we live in." And a North Carolina teen asked, "Can't this crazy world learn a thing or two from that sagacious Jedi master, Yoda...
...more. "Living food has a life force," says Chan. "Eating life force gives you life force." Sushi, though raw, has no life force, explains Chan: "Once the fish is cut, the life force dies." If you ever have a dinner date with an enthusiast of the raw--or Yoda--now you know where to make reservations...