That said, you won't be spending much time down here on the desktop, since Windows RT can't run legacy programs written for traditional, x86-based Windows systems.

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"There are people who will be looking for an opportunity on Tuesday and they'll be given the chance to make sure their time here has been valuable in the sense of getting time on the pitch".

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The how-to-get-there-from-here stuff will have to be dealt with, in time, but focusing on it too early makes it too hard to truly Think Big.

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Melville reflected on his time here: 'It needs scarcely to be told, with what feelings I regarded those marble tablets, and by the murky light of that darkened, doleful day read the fate of the whalemen who had gone before me.

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And if next year does see a return to the old days of sterile stand-offs and unwinnable votes, we'll probably see even more points of order, procedural matters and accusations of bad faith - and even less time spent on the things this commission is supposed to be here to do.

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Bourdett: I should probably be more careful here, considering the last time I wrote Jeter off (after 2008), he went on to have one of the best seasons (fantasy and real-life) of his career (.334-18-66-107-30).

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Hold Time won't be released until Feb. 17, but listeners can hear the entire album here on NPR Music as an exclusive preview.

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Could you elaborate at all on the meeting later today and who from industry will be here -- whether Secretary Salazar will be back in time?

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As well as coverage here on BBC1 the ceremony is being broadcast live in the United States for the first time and will be watched with keen interest as an indicator for the Oscar voting.

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