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...almost every night of the week, starting with the trendsetting CSI on CBS; its first-season spawn, CSI: Miami, also on CBS; and Crossing Jordan on NBC. On cable, The Forensics Files is Court TV's biggest prime-time show ever, while Autopsy is wooing--and spooking--viewers on HBO. "The combination of science and police work really drives a drama," says Tim Kring, executive producer of Crossing Jordan...
...protesting in Rangoon again in 1999, he is sentenced to 17 years and transferred to a solitary cell. While his family and friends orchestrate a campaign to draw attention to his cause, a motivated Mawdsley makes life hell for prison officials, demanding books, exercise time, a radio, everything but HBO. True, his demands are his chief means of challenging the corrupt regime, but there aren't many works of prison literature that can trigger a bit of sympathy for the police state...
Given this elementary truth and the fact that the Sopranos are now the axis upon which the world of popular culture spins, one would think that there would not only be HBO in Harvard’s common rooms but that cable (the good kind, with HBO and Cinemax) would be in all of Harvard’s dorm rooms. Having ready access to HBO would also preclude the need for a new Department of New Jersey Studies...
...remaining 80-90 percent of unused cable hookups for which the cable company nonetheless demands payment. This translates into higher hidden “technology fees” for students and parents come termbill time, says Mother Harvard. Furthermore, Bean portrays the greedy cable industry as the big bad HBO bandit because it would force Harvard to cover the entire cost of wiring its campus for service...
...anticipation of my package notification, I muse about how I might try to remedy this cable drought were I a mob boss from New Jersey rather than a lowly student journalist from Harvard. But then again, I’ll never know. I don’t have HBO...