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...based on mainland Britain. And unlike most competitors, it won't accept bets from places where online wagering is illegal, including the U.S. Indeed, it doesn't actually book bets; rather, it matches up bettors, for a fee. The strategy has won it plaudits at home, including an award for enterprise from Queen Elizabeth. And it enabled the company to attract Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley as financial advisers--a coup, given the nervousness of big U.S. banks about taking on clients in the offshore online-gaming sector...
...Harris followed up four stellar years of high school basketball at Harvard-Westlake High School (Calif.) with a postgraduate year at The Hill School in Pottstown, Pa., where he prepared his game for the transition to the next level and won the team’s Most Valuable Player award in the process...
...reckoned with in Hollywood. Read Peter Biskind’s hilarious and insightful account of their meteoric rise, “Down and Dirty Pictures,” to see what I’m talking about. Miramax revolutionized distribution, foreign film acquisition, and revitalized the importance of award shows, Oscar marketing, the festival circuit, and an “independent voice” in American cinema.The flip side, of course, is that when I say “revitalized the importance of [insert good deed],” I really mean “revitalized the importance of [good...
...submitting a call for entries, which is how Flynn and his team find 90 percent of the movies shown. There are then three independent judges who spend hours watching and deliberating over the movies to decide which films will appear at the festival. The festival also offers four awards: Best Feature, Best Documentary, Best Short Fiction/Animation, and the Director’s Choice Award...
...kind of joyful exuberance that requires an exclamation point at the end. Kushner is, of course, the type of playwright who tends to embellish everything he does with an emotional exclamation point—think “Angels in America,” his award-winning play about the AIDS crisis. “Slavs!” is no exception. The play is divided into three loosely linked stories about ordinary Russians, each involving surreal circumstances, sweeping dialogue, and, naturally, intense and unceasing discussion of the political problems of the age. Kushner’s parenthetical subtitle?...