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That’s it. It’s just a grudge. There are no winners—except the ignorant Ivy presidents—but there are plenty of losers...
...also don’t attempt to delude myself into thinking he has a grasp of what Harvard’s record is, where the team stands in the Ivy League race, or even what the score of the game is. (One could call this the Manny Ramirez approach, except Manny’s a better dresser). Instead, I just chant “playoffs,” over and over again, until he decides to leave the sidelines en route to his next appointment...
Ironically, executive producer Zuiker says that CSI: NY is meant to be more "character driven" than its two siblings. Sinise's character, Detective Mac Taylor, we learn, lost his wife in the World Trade Center. In the first episode, Taylor describes throwing out all his wife's effects except a beach ball she blew up the weekend before she died. "Her breath is still in there," he says. The promise of emotional scenes, says Sinise, helped persuade the Oscar nominee and Golden Globe and Emmy winner to take a role that still largely involves staring very, very seriously at garbage...
Still, Taylor's story is nothing like the layered look at 9/11 trauma, for instance, in the FX fire-fighter drama Rescue Me. Taylor's reminiscence doesn't teach us much about Taylor except that he's really sad, and the episodes still mostly follow the CSI crime-science-confession formula. Indeed, everyone connected with CSI: NY stresses it will still be mainly a procedural, and with good reason. The franchise has dabbled before in the personal lives of its characters; the original CSI tried a continuing story line in which Grissom began to lose his hearing. "We were fascinated...
Ward 7, Precinct 3—which includes all freshman dorms and Adams House as well as Cambridge residents—had an active voter turnout rate of 85 percent. Ward 4, Precinct 3 and Ward 8, Precinct 3—encompassing the River Houses except Adams—had a combined rate of 79 percent. Ward 8, District 1, covering the Quad Houses, had 88 percent...