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...deal. No really enormous noses either. Your character can't even be as fat as your average tech-gossip blogger, since only the slightest of beer guts is permitted in Home. And if you want to create a female avatar, she's got to look like something from Playboy, circa 1968. Not that that's a bad thing for some of us, although my 11-year-old daughter thought the bustiness was ridiculous...
...circa 280 A.D.Nicholas is born in Patara, Lycia - part of modern day Turkey. Like others of the Emperor Constantine generation, he enters a life of religious servitude. He works his way up from abbot to the archbishop of Myra - a nearby town - and gets his first nickname: Nicholas of Myra...
...real deal. No really enormous noses, either. You want your character to be as obese as a tech-gossip blogger? Sorry, only the slightest of beer guts is permitted in Home. And if you want to create a female avatar, she's got to look like something from Playboy, circa 1968. No Kate Moss here...
...stateless warfare. Few should, however, attempt to draw a line in the sand with India as an ally of the United States in the “War on Terror” and Pakistan as a terror-sympathetic state disinterested in solving the problem. Pakistan is no Afghanistan circa 2001, and has been extremely cooperative thus far. If India and Pakistan can avoid slipping into the “with us or against us” dichotomy, no one else should—and that goes especially for the United States and Israel. Such a perspective ignores the intricate context...
Tomorrow, Oct. 17, 2008: You go to the Kong circa 2 a.m. Luckily, your ID is not stolen, although they have run out of crab-studded cream cheese...