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...hardware might be better used for, oh, guarding the coast. But when you've achieved CSI's level of success, everyone wants to give you a 21-gun salute. Your viewers do; they made CSI the most popular drama on TV and its two sequels, Miami and New York, instant Top 10 hits. Your network does; chairman Leslie Moonves of CBS approved the New York spin-off in a meeting that essentially consisted of his asking Zuiker to pick a city. "You can't overestimate how important the CSI franchise is to us," says Moonves. "It is the linchpin...
...buzz around the project itself; since Toy Story, Pixar has rightfully earned the attention and respect of serious film critics, appealing to thumbs-uppers and thumbsuckers alike. The studio’s well-crafted canon, which also includes Monsters, Inc. and last year’s instant classic Finding Nemo, has had a profound influence on the world of animated film, pushing traditional two-dimensional animation into commercial obsolescence...
Jennifer H. Lee ’05 says she is a Republican, but many of her friends may not know that about her. She said she received many instant messages complaining, “This is the worst day of my life.” To which she simply responded, “Oh, I hear...
...winner a legitimacy he would otherwise lack. (After all, no presidential candidate has received a majority of the popular vote since former president George H. W. Bush garnered a slim 53 percent in 1988.) Still, there is a superior solution that combines popular voting with a majority winner: instant runoff voting (IRV), in which voters rank candidates instead of just voting...
...instant runoff election—so-called because the majority winner is determined from a single round of voting—the candidate with the fewest first-choice votes is eliminated from contention, and the voters who voted for this candidate have their second-choice votes awarded to remaining candidates. Successive eliminations and vote redistributions occur until there are only two candidates left, at which point one will have a majority of votes...