Thus far this season, O'Brien's Tonight Show has trailed The Late Show with David Letterman by an average of 1.7 million total viewers, or 65%. (For comparison's sake, Leno had a 20% lead over Letterman's show last year.) Among the advertiser-beloved demographic of 18- to 49-year-olds, O'Brien and Letterman have fared about the same--not bad, until you consider that Leno had a 15% lead in that key area.

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Last year, U.K. gay rights group Stonewall gave Cardinal O'Brien its "Bigot of the Year" award.

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But, virtually out of the blue, he won the Masters last year beating Hendry in the semis and Fergal O'Brien, from 7-3 down, 10-9 in the final.

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"Last year we had around 20 we brought to the head of the line, " Mr. O'Hanlon says.

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Last year, U.K. gay-rights group Stonewall gave Cardinal O'Brien its "Bigot of the Year" award.

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She began seeing Mr O'Brien, who was her childhood sweetheart, at the end of November last year.

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"We are betting big on the cloud with our most successful product, and we are investing heavily both in the product engineering side and the physical infrastructure side, " Tim O'Brien, Microsoft's senior director of platform strategy, said last year when the company first unveiled a Web-based version of its Office software.

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