When he spouts his off-kilter ideas, his self-absorption can be disarmingly childlike, but Mr. Sheen's performance highlights the gulf between James Dean's poignant persona and Kit's hollow posturing, his fear that the world isn't listening.

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Other highlights a performance by blues great Buddy Guy an a set from Vince Gill, Keith Urban and Albert Lee.

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That blossomed two years later into a much larger annual scorecard that highlights fees alongside performance.

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It just highlights a previously underappreciated mechanism through which choice increases performance.

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Hbasecon highlights the growing importance of the open-source community as leaders in expanding the pure performance and capability as the big data market rapidly expands.

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The latest ZiiLABS MandelMark data highlights how the increase in size of the StemCell array can result in a 2X increase in performance or a 50% reduction in power consumption.

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