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When it became clear what a mess Florida was, both the Gore and Bush campaigns put out a nationwide dragnet for lawyers to help them fight for the state. We are a nation of laws, and there seems to be no limit to the constitutional provisions, statutes, court precedents and common-law principles that may be called upon to determine who will be the next President. The legal battle so far has taken in issues as majestic as the 12th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and as humble as the status of the now famous dimpled chad...
...Where Dragnet satisfied a yearning for incorruptible cops, CSI evinces a longing for incorruptible machines, "Just the facts, ma'am" taken to its logical extreme. The CSIS (led by William Petersen and Marg Helgenberger) are bland, undistinguished types, as if to indicate how secondary the human factor is in this fantasy world of justice by the numbers. When you're guilty on CSI, you're guilty all the way; the computer says so. There is no relativism, no my truth and your truth. It's science. It's nothing personal. And we never have to see the cases go through...
Freberg--who at 73 is living in Los Angeles and still does a syndicated radio show--likes to recall that St. George and the Dragonet, his chart-topping parody of Dragnet, was a big hit in Australia even before the TV show was seen there. Later, when it finally arrived, an Aussie fan came up to Freberg and marveled, "Somebody has gone and built a whole TV show around your record!" For a satirist, that's the Academy Award...
With almost every imaginable law enforcement agency -? including the Postal Inspection Service ?- on his trail, Buford O. Furrow Jr. slipped the massive L.A. dragnet ... in a taxicab. And then he turned himself in to the Las Vegas FBI, bright and early on Wednesday morning. And a motive? An FBI source told the Associated Press that Furrow simply walked into the office, said "You're looking for me, I killed the kids in Los Angeles," and offered an explanation: "He wanted this to be a wake-up call to America to kill Jews." Authorities say Furrow is cooperating, which is flack...
Without a torturous spy subplot, a drag show is nothing. With one, it could be a dragnet show. International espionage, despite its tendency to climax in showdowns on top of skyscrapers, is eerily seductive--think Tom Cruise flailing like an insect in Mission Impossible, Harrison Ford in Patriot Games, Elizabeth Berkeley in Showgirls. Kick from showcases its espionage plot as a xenophobic triangle, with private eyes Katya Redhanded (Young Lee '99) and Newt Erd on the tail of Eiffel Over (Christian Roulleau '01), a breadbasket wearing, scent-spilling, card-carrying member of the HPT (Hairy Patriarchal Thespians). For the resident...