Even so, the iPad proved to be another ground-breaking product with sales topping billions of dollars in the first couple of months, bringing new life to a segment of the computer market that had until then been essentially moribund.

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Roth expands it into a rich Louisiana picaresque, ranging far and wide as Benjamin tastes romance in Russia with the wife of an English diplomat (a beguiling Tilda Swinton), comes off second-best in an encounter with a German U-boat, and pursues Daisy, the love of his life, first to New York and then to Paris.

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If Apple finally adds 4G LTE and increases the display size in the new iPhone model, then odds are Apple will be very concerned with battery life.

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Parliament needs to elect a new president before then or the country will plunge deeper into a crisis that has paralysed political life for the last year.

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The prof has built a team of students who win fortunes in blackjack during weekend trips to Las Vegas and then resume life on campus as if nothing had happened, and his new recruit becomes the star player.

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And then there were those pesky tenants, who organized rallies and filed lawsuits and made life miserable for the new owners.

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Then one picked up a scent and, new life in their legs, they loped in file for the trees, vanished.

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He then retired to private life as the CEO of energy services company Haliburton for five years, but he felt a new calling when then-Texas Gov. George W. Bush asked him to lead his search for a vice presidential candidate.

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