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...they might have something to say about the lopsided number of screenplays predicated on the antics of miscreant simians.) Even worse, Ahkmenrah has a brother, the crazily dressed, maniacally lisping Kahmunrah (Hank Azaria), who, less loved by his parents, intends to use the tablet to exact his revenge and rule the world. If Larry doesn't do something, it's not just his exhibitionist friends who are stuffed. (See TIME's summer entertainment preview...
...maritime trade in the early nineteenth century. Before the arrival of the steamship, when three-masted clippers sailed between India and China with cargoes of tea, silver and opium, Singapore was a midway point and a place to drop anchor during the stormy monsoons. Under British colonial rule Singapore developed into a free port where import and export duties were scrapped and passing ships could cheaply purchase all their rigging, provisions, and bunker oil. As the industry grew, the figure of the ship chandler passed into Singapore's literary lore, appearing most memorably in Paul Theroux's 1973 novel Saint...
...effort succeeds, it could seriously damage Uribe's impressive legacy. Critics are already painting him as a conservative counterpart to Hugo Chávez, Venezuela's left-wing President who was first elected 11 years ago and has vowed to rule until 2021. Others see parallels with Alberto Fujimori, who took on his country's guerrilla groups and used his popularity to gain a third presidential term in 2000. But Fujimori quickly fell from grace and was forced to resign. Last month, a Peruvian court convicted him of mass murder and kidnapping and sentenced him to 25 years in prison...
Most important, realize that, done right, spending less doesn't mean being miserable--just making sure that the things you pay for are truly important to you. "There's no right or wrong budget," says Leslie Linfield, executive director of the Institute for Financial Literacy. "The only rule is, don't spend more than you make." Because breaking that rule is what got us here in the first place...
...compounded by the way California's government works. In most states, the legislature can pass a budget by simple majority vote. The politicians haggle and horse-trade, but a budget eventually gets passed and life moves on. In the Golden State, bitter partisanship is exacerbated by a constitutional rule requiring a two-thirds majority in the legislature to pass either a budget or new taxes. Meanwhile, the state's nearly 100-year-old system of ballot initiatives has progressively tied state government in Gordian knots...