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...creators of Myst IV hope to change that with a faster-paced, more immersive game. "The whole idea is about living an adventure, not solving a particular puzzle," says Patrick Fortier, the game's lead designer. If you can't figure out how to restart a broken power generator in Tomahna, for example, you can refer to a help guide. And there's more than an hour of live-action video in which characters offer cryptic clues on how to proceed...
...whose roles range from composing and aggregating songs to delivering them, around 40%; and music publishers - which are sometimes owned by labels and sometimes aren't - up to 20%, which they share with the actual songwriters. "The 40% that's getting squeezed are the guys in the middle," says Patrick Parodi, chairman of the London-based Mobile Entertainment Forum, an industry association whose members include companies from all sectors of the ring-tone business. Not surprisingly, the middlemen firms don't want to give up their cut to the labels, and fear a fight over percentages could push up prices...
...DIVORCED. PATRICK HOLLAND, 14, from his father, Daniel Holland, becoming the first child to divorce a parent on his own (without the assistance of a ward or guardian); in Canton in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. Daniel Holland shot his wife Elizabeth in their Quincy, Massachusetts, home in 1998 and is serving a life sentence. Patrick discovered his mother's body. "No one should ever have to go through what I went through," he said last week...
...BADMINTON Mike Beres, Mt. Pleasant, Ont. Philippe Bourret, Montreal Denyse Julien, Calgary, Alta. Helen Nichol, Burlington, Ont. Jody Patrick, Calgary, Alta. Charmaine Reid, Calgary, Alta. Anna Rice, Vancouver...
...regulator after another. "Many of our clients are looking for people with strong regulatory sensibilities," says Susan Kurz Snyder of Greene-Levin-Snyder Legal Search Group, an executive-recruitment firm. In the past year, Eric Dinallo from New York attorney general Eliot Spitzer's office and the SEC's Patrick Patalino have switched over to Morgan Stanley and Credit Suisse First Boston, respectively. The latest defector: Beth L. Golden, Spitzer's former deputy of special projects, who becomes the global head of compliance at the Bear Stearns Cos. next month. Bear Stearns has received requests for information and subpoenas from...