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Cabanillas, a key member of Garcia's APRA party and its presidential candidate in 1995, is routinely referred to at the Peruvian Margaret Thatcher for her tough stands. Administration sources say that she was the president's pick to become chief of staff in July, when Garcia starts the fourth year of a five-year term that ends in July 2011. That is now politically untenable. The ministers have claimed so far that they have no intention of stepping down and the administration, while saying it wants dialogue to end the tension, maintains that it will not modify the series...
...southern part of Virginia - those who can appeal to enough moderate voters near Richmond while still holding on to the more Democratic-leaning north - politicians like Senator Jim Webb, retiring Governor Tim Kaine and current gubernatorial hopeful Creigh Deeds. But when Virginia Democrats go to the polls Tuesday to pick their nominee for governor, they'll be choosing between Deeds and two decidedly more liberal or Beltway establishment candidates, former Democratic National Committee head Terry McAuliffe and former northern Virginia State Representative Brian Moran...
Birthday Bonus. OpenSkies, the luxe airline that flies from New York's JFK to Paris and Amsterdam, is celebrating its first birthday by giving away a business class ticket per day for the next year. Each month, through May 2010, OpenSkies will pick 30 winners from a different birth month. (Confusingly, in June, people who were born in October are eligible to win.) To enter the lottery, register here by June 19. Or, take advantage of a sure thing: OpenSkies has a sale on Biz class seats through June 30, with $550 one-way fares to Paris...
When creating your character, you get to pick from 70 traits, including "easily impressed" and "kleptomaniac," to add some depth to your Sim's personality. There's a cool new function that lets you make movies online. And moving around is more seamless in this version. Walk your character from your home to a neighbor's and go inside - the computer can now process it all without interruption. Pick a job, make money, buy things. The Sims 3 even lets you pick a lifetime goal, say, of leading an evil empire...
...upon a conclave of cardinals - yet many have proven less than holy, and wars have been fought over successions. A bit like Catholics through the ages, says Baran, Tibetan Buddhists "assess a tulku's wisdom not by his title, but by his piety and learning." The monks try to pick the bright and promising children, he says; but Tibetans also assume the weeding-out function of the extensive tulku education: "no matter who they pick, the best and the brightest will surface in the course of the process...