These solutions, while handy, have to make early adopters wonder why they bought into Windows 8 in the first place, especially if they are not using a touch screen.

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When the final numbers come in the picture can look a little different, especially when two films are fighting it out for first place.

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Remember what it was in the first place, and see that in him again, especially since he is most assuredly blind to it.

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That's OK, especially for traditionalists who never wanted the convoluted and often confounding calculation in the first place.

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"The sooner a credible Iraqi government is in place to lead the way, the better, especially because the absence of such a sovereign government is part of the problem in the first place, " Brahimi said in a briefing before the U.N.

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This is an especially unlikely prospect given the enormous political capital expended by the Clinton Administration in securing this accord in the first place.

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The fact that Ben Kuchera quoted Totilo in the first place may break some fuzzy, golden (and often unspoken) rule of gaming journalism, especially since it cast Totilo in a negative light.

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