The founders believed that by allowing trade to flourish across the continent, the EU would foster deep political, commercial and social links, making future wars unthinkable.
Maybe it will work for long enough to justify the expense, making the Star Wars series into a newfangled James Bond-type series where we just get another fantastic adventure every time out.
When news broke that Disney had acquired Lucasfilm and would be making new Star Wars movies, a part of my brain lit up with the excitement I felt in 1977 and has been sparking every since.
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The suggestion that Buzz killed Johnny's wife hovers over much of the film, making the point that wars exact tolls beyond the battlefront, and sometimes the effects are felt tragically on the home front.
While United, American, Continental, Delta, etc. fought each other toe-to-toe for customers in the hub-and-spoke airline wars (none making any money by the way) Southwest ferried people cheaply between smaller airports on direct flights.
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Chewbacca, the most famous Wookiee of the Star Wars universe, is making his debut on the animated show's Season 3 finale.
Dan Ingvaldson, a researcher at ISS, says movies, many of them not yet released to theaters, have made the rounds through these underground networks, making it conceivable that someone has already seen Star Wars: Attack of the Clones without having to pay for it.
By making defence planners worry about fighting two nearly-simultaneous wars like that against Iraq in 1991, this rule-of-thumb has made it harder to prepare for the much broader range of threats which lie ahead.
Civilians - the vast majority of them indigenous Mayans - were caught in the crossfire, and an estimated 200, 000 died before a truce was reached in 1996, making the conflict one of Latin America's most violent wars.
Star Wars, of course, shattered all box office records, making so much money that not even fancy Hollywood accounting could minimize Lucas' 40% of the net profits.
And that's why the plan that I've put forward for manufacturing, and education, and reducing our deficit in a sensible way, using the savings from ending wars to rebuild America and putting people back to work, making sure that we are controlling our own energy, but not just the energy of today, but also the energy of the future -- all those things will make a difference.
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But the combination of two world wars fought largely on European soil and a 40-year Cold War changed all that, making much of Europe a pawn between two nuclear superpowers.
On the technical side, the GBA was the rough equivalent to the Super Nintendo making ports of titles from that system easy, but the GBA also benefited from some wildly original games like Advance Wars.
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