Watching this picture is about as much fun as paying taxes, and far less stirring emotionally.

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Watching this picture is like surfing the soaps for a couple of hours.

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That famous picture of the people watching, the White House staffers who were in that room, are they the only ones -- the ones in that picture, are they the only ones who knew what was going on?

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And I think when you look at his movies -- even the format that he shoots it in -- you almost feel as if you're a voyeur watching, the picture almost develops.

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Even more, with the picture-in-picture feature, you can surf the web while watching live TV, all at the same time.

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During the euphoria of a bull market it seems easy to picture oneself holding through a bear market, eagerly watching for it to end so the big gains will resume.

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Judge Douglas Ginsburg, in a 41-page opinion, ruled that by tracking suspected drug dealer Antoine Jones for 28 days police assembled a picture of his movements and habits that an ordinary observer could not obtain by watching his vehicle on one or two isolated trips.

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SeaWinds data combined with other weather-watching data, like NOAA's Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer, paint a picture favorable to hurricanes this season, Liu said.

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Better yet, with hawkeyed Grove watching the troops, Noyce and Moore could safely retreat upstairs to concentrate on big-picture strategy.

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Perhaps that explains the timing of the move: With Malone out of the picture, Diller, now the single largest IAC stakeholder by a wide margin, wanted the best candidate possible watching over his investment even if that meant firing himself.

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