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...NEWFANGLED. The ways people kill and cover up have not changed much since Cain and Abel. But the means of catching them evolve constantly, and therein lies CSI's hook: the public's post-O.J., post-Monica fascination with DNA and modern forensics. Killers are traduced by their own dandruff; sleuths use aerosol to reveal telltale traces of blood. It's an appealing notion--spray-on justice--and CSI aims to make the science "approachable, understandable and fun," says executive producer Carol Mendelsohn. CSI underscores its tech savvy with innovative visuals: a whooshing special-effects sequence whips you through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Murder in Six Easy Steps | 4/8/2002 | See Source »

...society in which we seem to spend more time talking about what Britney Spears is (or isn't) wearing and who in Hollywood is sleeping with whom, it is refreshing to see someone with Bono's influence and fame doing something positive. Bravo, Bono! DANA M. CAIN Port Orchard, Wash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 25, 2002 | 3/25/2002 | See Source »

...Lovell House residents Jamal King ’05 and Silas P. Silas ’05 have caused quite a stir here at Harvard, what with their kidnapping of the Dooster statue, crashing their car into the Harvard statue while hotboxing and delivering pot brownies to uptight Dean Cain. Asked for comment, Jamal indicated that he came to Harvard looking to “cultivate [his] herbals?...

Author: By Gossip Guy, | Title: Gossip Guy! | 2/14/2002 | See Source »

...circa 1949. Everyone cheats on him--his wife, his business partner, his teen lover, his hotshot lawyer. By the movie's end, he is facing his final comeuppance, deadpan sangfroid still miraculously intact. The ever astonishing Coen brothers say their film was inspired by the spirit of James M. Cain's novels about ill-fated dopes. But the Coens transcend Cain. If this were not such great American-vernacular moviemaking--hilarious yet hypnotic--one would be tempted to see something Greek in the tragedy that Ed never comprehends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Man Who Wasn't There | 10/29/2001 | See Source »

...life--for planning for their next careers by spending autumns learning how to dart dresses in the same class at a Fort Lauderdale, Fla., fashion college next to a strip mall--but that may be the only thing that gets them through a sibling rivalry that could otherwise make Cain and Abel seem like Waltons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Tennis: Williams Wins! | 9/17/2001 | See Source »

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