These qualities put the Nomad line at the top of the heap in the race to be the best gaming laptop 2012 has seen.

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Then I had a chat with Thomas Pastuszak, wine director at New York's Nomad restaurant, who said the best match wasn't between wine and food at all but between wine and diner.

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The old mental picture of a nomad invariably had him mostly him, at that time lugging lots of them.

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During Watergate, he discovered a fascist conspiracy at the heart of government, and was so disillusioned that he briefly became a stateless hero called Nomad.

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