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...video-game circuit operates much like pro tennis'. Gamers qualify for top-tier events by competing in smaller tourneys either individually or as part of a team. Organizers prefer teams because they draw more fans--crucial for an event trying to sell itself as a spectator sport. Purses are relatively modest, at least by pro-baseball standards. A World Cyber Games winner might get $20,000--less than what the Texas Rangers pay shortstop Alex Rodriguez for two innings...
Yasin pointed out that OCS provides resources for students on a wide range of industries—but said that he himself is looking to get an offer from a top-tier consulting firm like McKinsey & Company...
...professor Walter C. Willett has even suggested his own recipe for the pyramid, which incorporates new scientific findings about fats and carbohydrates in a seven-tiered design. In Willett’s popular alternative, the bottom tier is exercise and refined grains have relocated...
After the first two weeks of the season, Harvard has yet to be listed in the STX/NFHCA Coaches Poll, perhaps because the Crimson has not played an upper-tier opponent that would justify a ranking in the nation?...
...Paris was the universe," recalls Gilbert, who moved there in 1968. "When we first arrived, we felt Lilliputian. We felt lost." But like others before them, they fell into a café welfare system. The Auvergnats of Paris take care of their own. The boys learned their métier at cafés around town and impressed their elders with their shrewdness and industry. Among the impressed was Michel Vidalenc, whose employer, Groupe Bertrand, is one of a few family firms that dominates beverage distribution in France. (Bertrand is now a subsidiary of Dutch brewer Heineken.) These brasseurs - many...