He seems a quick learner and has built up an impressive team of advisers, drawing in seasoned hands like Paul Volcker, Robert Rubin and Larry Summers.

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The technique was based on a gestural vocabulary that included drawing back, with both hands open and raised up, eyes wide open, and mouth agape, to indicate surprise, and that sort of thing.

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Plus, its palm rejection feature keeps drawings clear of unnecessary and unwanted marks, smudges, blots and more from hands resting on the screen during drawing sessions.

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They can make as many appeals as they want if they are right, signalling their intent by drawing the outline of a TV with their hands, but only three unsuccessful appeals per team are allowed in each innings.

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The interest level is so high that last week, when a Chinese blog claimed to have gotten its hands on a 3DS and posted a line drawing of a device, "Nintendo 3DS" briefly became one of Google's most-searched terms.

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After drawing 33, 847 attendees for their October 9th 20-17 loss at the hands of visiting Purdue, Northwestern University football improved its season attendance total to 89, 393 for their first 3 home games of 2010.

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