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...Campaign Manager: Gabe M. Scheinmann ’08 House: Eliot
...GABE JOHNSON...
...That?s the thing about the Reigning World Champs with two and a-half months left to play: They seem to have the blahs. Maybe the return of Gabe Kapler will juice the clubhouse, maybe whatever move Theo makes in the next two weeks will. The crucial item to remember is: Twelve months ago the team was similarly scuffling at this point, and it wasn?t in first place. Tom Gordon was pitching well for the Yankees 12 months ago, not having yet burned out-as he will again this summer. Randy Johnson wasn?t really all that good...
Isaacson is quick with encouragement and compliments, but carefully avoids hyperjock competitiveness or withering comparisons.[*] A member of the American College of Sports Medicine, he draws from a variety of sources (the Pritikin Program, Earl Mindell's Vitamin Bible, The Sports-medicine Book by Gabe Mirkin and Marshall Hoffman) and serves it all up with a commonsensical approach that stresses his four Ds: decision, determination, discipline and diligence. His unballyhooed fifth D, of course, is deference. He ministers to egos as deftly as to flesh, and he is sympathetic to the open-pore scrutiny and pressures faced by performers. "They...
Laidlaw was a published novelist, not a computer programmer, but he saw in those games new ways to tell stories. So in 1997 he joined an upstart game company in Seattle called Valve; Laidlaw had heard that he and the founder, Gabe Newell, might be thinking along the same lines. "We were going to take the idea of storytelling over to a straightforward first-person shooter [game] and see how far we could get with that," says Laidlaw. They got pretty far. The game they created was called Half-Life, and right from the beginning people could...