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Published: Friday, February 1, 2013, 8:14 p.m.

I was pleasantly surprised to learn that the subscription gets you the same software you'd get buying at a retail store. In fact, I'm using the new Office 2013 to write this review, and it feels as smooth as the customized version of Office 2010 I regularly use.

With an online subscription, you keep paying Microsoft to use the latest version of the software, rather than pay the company once for software that gets outdated over time. It's pricey, at $100 a year, compared with the traditional way of paying a one-time fee that starts at $140 and is good for years. Nonetheless, households with several computers will find subscriptions a good value, as one subscription is good for up to five Windows or Mac machines.

At first glance, Office 2013 resembles Office 2010, whether you buy it as a subscription or out of a box. There's a row of buttons -- the ribbon -- with quick access to the tools you need most. Files are compatible, so you can send Office 2013 documents to someone who has only Office 2010.

What Office 2013 does, though, is embrace Microsoft's touch-screen philosophy. Microsoft's Windows 8 operating system, which came out last fall, enables touch-screen controls so desktop and laptop computers work more like tablets. It's Microsoft's way of addressing a challenge to PCs brought about by the popularity of the iPad and tablets running Google's Android system.

So with Office 2013, you can use those ribbon buttons and menu options with your finger, as long as you have a touch-screen monitor. You can also move your cursor by touching the spot on the screen where you want to insert a paragraph into a Word document or edit a formula in an Excel spreadsheet. Of course, you can use the old-fashioned mouse and keyboard commands instead.

A button at the top lets you switch between touch and mouse modes, though you can still touch in mouse mode and vice versa. In touch mode, buttons and menus are spaced farther apart to reduce the chance of accidentally hitting the wrong one.

Microsoft also designed Office 2013 to reflect the fact that people these days tend to have multiple devices -- perhaps a desktop at work, a laptop at home and a tablet on the go.

When you're online and signed in with a free Microsoft account (such as Hotmail, Live or Outlook.com), Office will push you toward storing your files online through Microsoft's SkyDrive storage service. That way, a file you save at home will pop up at work with all the changes you made. No longer do you have to email files to yourself -- or kick yourself for forgetting to do so. If you prefer, you can still store files the traditional way, on your hard drive.

Other features reflect our continual connectedness. You can insert an image into Word directly from an online service such as Flickr, for instance, without first saving it onto your computer.

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A decision on Obama's recess appointment power shows why judicial originalism is an exciting game without any rules.

An etching from A Rake's Progress by William Hogarth (Wikimedia Commons)

The early returns on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals' sweeping "recess appointments" decisions are not favorable. Kenneth Jost of CQ Press called it "astounding." The three-judge panel went "on a tear," he adds. Jeffrey Toobin of theNew Yorker called it an "extravagant act of judicial hubris," in which "three federal judges revealed themselves as Republican National Committeemen in robes." Prominent separation-of-powers theorist Peter Shane posted not one, or even two, but three criticisms of the decision.Noel Canning v. National Labor Relations Board, he wrote, "is a little like a Rob Schneider movie -- the more you think about it, the worse it seems."

Even some right-of-center commentators have expressed mixed emotions. In a Federalist Society podcast after the decision, Chapman University professor John Eastman praised the decision as a check on executive power tyranny. Michael Rappaport of the University of San Diego defends the decision against charges of partisanship, and told me in an email that he found the analysis basically correct.

But Michael Greve of George Mason wrote that the opinion seemed "a tad doctrinaire." Writing in theWall Street Journal (subscription required), John Yoo, formerly of the Bush Justice Department, blamed President Obama for setting up the situation, but cautioned that the opinion "has jeopardized a vital executive power for all future presidents." John Elwood, also a former Bush Justice official, mildly notedthat "the panel would have benefited" from actual briefing on the questions it decided.

Noel Canning invalidates President Obama's recess appointments of three members of the National Labor Relations Board. Under the "recess appointments" clause of the Constitution, Article II 2 cl. 3, "[t]he President shall have power to fill up all vacancies that may happen during the recess of the Senate, by granting commissions which shall expire at the end of their next Session."

Obama had made his appointments during a period when the Senate -- because of a tricky maneuver by the Republican House -- was blocked from taking a full recess, but instead was holding one-minute, one-member "pro forma" sessions every three days at which no business was or could be conducted. This was the equivalent of a recess, Obama's lawyers reasoned, and so the clause permitted him to make temporary appointments.

The specific case is very close. The "pro forma" sessions maneuver is a novel one -- pioneered, in an exquisite irony, by Senator Harry Reid as a means of blocking appointments by the George W. Bush White House. A decision against the administration on the narrow issue of "pro forma" appointments would have had bad practical consequences -- the NLRB and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau would have ground to a halt. But it would have been defensible as application of the Constitution's text, history, and structure to the existing body of legal precedent -- that is, as the kind of work we expect a court to do.

The three-judge panel of the D.C. circuit, however, went beyond the "pro forma" question and decided two issues that were arguably not even before it. First, it said, the president can make recess appointments only between formal sessions of Congress, not when the Senate is genuinely adjourned during a session. (Two-year Congresses are usually divided into two sessions, with typically a few weeks' gap at the end of the year between them.)

Second, it said that the recess power only applies if the vacancy itself arises between sessions. In other words, a job that comes open while Congress is in session can never be filled by a recess appointment, even if the Senate adjourns completely without acting on a nomination.

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Former Jets QB Vinny Testaverde isnt a fan of the teams ongoing circus atmosphere.

Heres a position-by-position breakdown of the Dolphins defense.

Bills special-teams coordinator Danny Crossman talks about his plan for improving Buffalos coverage and return units.

Heres a look at the AP awards, if the only team in the NFL was the Patriots.

Baltimore native Michael Phelps thinks the Ravens will win the Super Bowl by seven points. (The bigger question is whether hell celebrate with a bowl, a bong, or a blunt.)

Former (eventually) Steelers RB Chris Rainey has pleaded no contest to a charge of disorderly conduct to resolve his domestic violence case.

Former Bengals LB Ahmad Brooks, who now plays for the 49ers, says that youth and politics kept him from playing more when he was in Cincinnati.

Browns owner Jimmy Haslam says that QB Brandon Weeden will have competition for his job.

So would Gregg Williams and Jerry Gray be able to coexist in Tennessee?

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The details of Dave Robinson's life were made for a Hall of Fame plaque.

Superstar athlete. Racial pioneer. Engineering graduate. Character in a Broadway play. Number 1 NFL draft pick. Starter in Super Bowl I.

He played for Vince Lombardi and a young Joe Paterno. Countless teammates won great fame (the legendary 1960s Green Bay Packers) and at least one earned eternal shame (Jerry Sandusky).

But there are two discordant notes in the Mount Laurel native's story, notable holes in his heart and his resum.

One of those could be corrected Saturday in New Orleans, where Robinson waits to learn if, at 71, he has at last been elected to Pro Football's Hall of Fame.

The other isn't so easily remedied. It's the absence of his wife, Elaine, who died in 2007, and without whom, Robinson said, a Hall of Fame honor won't mean nearly as much.

"We spent 50 years together," Robinson said this week. "We dated for six years and were married for 44. I know the Hall of Fame would have meant a great deal to her. That's why I have mixed emotions about it. I'm anxious to see if I get in after all these years, but I'm so sorry she won't be here."

Their devotion was so deep that Robinson said if the NFL hadn't asked him to be in New Orleans for Saturday's pre-Super Bowl Class of 2013 revelation, he'd prefer to have experienced the news at his wife's grave in Cinnaminson.

To many, it's surprising to learn that Robinson hasn't already been enshrined in the Canton Hall, not far from Akron, where he's lived and worked the last several decades.

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