"All of a sudden it occurred to me that there are actually people who make these, " Levine said.

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Levine and Sheil make a plausibly edgy, cultured pair (his opening riffs on Philip Roth are as smart as they are crisply declaimed) whose bonds are facing their first serious strain, which is captured in understatedly contentious dialogue and nuanced glances.

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In this way, Levine and his team have succeeded in creating not only an excitingly wonderful game but one that will make the player think for days after the game is done.

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The experiment with e-commerce thus far has shown that online shoppers tend to favor the bricks-and-clicks models so they don't sacrifice having a physical location where they can get advice, view products or make an exchange -- a finding that bricks-and-clicks universities are likely to recognize and copy, Levine said.

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