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...circuit has also birthed other official rankings and ventures, like Major League Gaming (MLG), which last year raised $35 million in venture capital. "Two years ago, selling pro gaming to cell-phone providers and soft-drink companies was difficult," says Mike Sepso, CEO of MLG. "But 2006 proved it was real. Tens of thousands came to our live events, and hundreds of thousands watched them." While MLG's revenue is growing, profitability is, at least for now, elusive...
...goal. The Crimson controlled the game’s second period and capitalized on the last of three power-play opportunities to take a 2-1 lead when senior forward Ryan Maki netted his team-leading ninth goal of the season.In the third period, Clarkson’s Mike Sullivan evened the score after an apparent save by freshman goalie Kyle Richter trickled past the goal line during several seconds of commotion in Harvard’s crease.The play was not without controversy. The Crimson believed that Richter may have covered the puck during the fracas and that the play...
...imaginative, ingenious and inventive. All are adjectives that apply to the 26 paintings Mike Wilks has devised in celebration of the alphabet. Each picture in The Ultimate Alphabet (Holt; $19.95) contains a multitude of objects illustrating a single letter. Among the 259 items in G, the reader is invited to identify a Gypsy guitarist garbed in gaudy garments in a graveyard full of graven images. The T painting teems with 427 items, including Tweedledum and Tweedledee and enough trees to traumatize a topiarist. For the reader who spots the most words, the publishers offer a $15,000 prize...
...audience. He realizes he is considered aloof even by those who know him best, and admits, "I'm always having to tell myself, 'Get back into the conversation.'" When he does get off a good line, it is a throwaway, almost sotto voce, and rarely with a stranger. Director Mike Nichols, who staged four of Simon's plays, recalls attending one in which he had not been involved. Simon greeted him wearing a handsome coat. Says Nichols: "It was an off night. The play had problems, real problems. After the performance, Neil took my arm, walked me down the alley...
...there's more than a bit of shadowboxing going on. Republican consultant Mike Murphy, who has worked for G.O.P. contenders John McCain and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, says he always hangs a map behind his desk--and has a campaign intern pepper it randomly with colored stickpins--so that visitors will be impressed with his campaign's "field operation." The real measure of a campaign in the early stages, he says, is often what it isn't doing. "If you hear one campaign is talking to Mayor Bag O'Doughnuts, you feel...