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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...only dark cable comedies that have borrowed tricks from dramas. (The Office and Parks are also willing to take their characters into dramatic territory.) CBS's How I Met Your Mother is like a sitcom version of Lost: it's built around a central mystery - how the protagonist meets his eventual wife - and likes to play with nonlinear narratives, story lines that jump around in time. It's a light show, but it expects its viewers to pay much closer attention than did the sitcoms of a generation ago (as does Emmy-winning 30 Rock, which is shot through with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Laugh Track Required: The Comeback of the Sitcom | 10/12/2009 | See Source »

...serving a life sentence for eight of the most horrific murders in the annals of American crime. Atkins, a Los Angeles native, was 15 when her mother died; soon afterward, she left home to become a topless dancer in San Francisco. In the hippie mecca of Haight-Ashbury she met cult leader Charles Manson, who seduced her and his other young followers into believing that he was the second coming of Christ--and that the way to bring about a new social order was to commit mass murder and frame blacks, which would ignite an apocalyptic race war he called...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Susan Atkins | 10/12/2009 | See Source »

...bought the boat tickets the day I saw that YouTube video. I knew we'd need a backup plan. The boat was actually plan C. The church was plan B. And plan A was marring her a long, long time ago. Pretty much the day I met...

Author: By Michelle L. Quach | Title: Recap: "Niagara" | 10/12/2009 | See Source »

...bought the boat tickets the day I saw that YouTube video. I knew we'd need a backup plan. The boat was actually plan C. The church was plan B. And plan A was marring her a long, long time ago. Pretty much the day I met...

Author: By Michelle L. Quach | Title: Recap: "Niagara" | 10/11/2009 | See Source »

...cookies in the hope that someone else would pay for this amenity. The FAS is, of course, not unique in having to adjust in these difficult financial times, but the future certainly looks brighter knowing that individuals like Ms. Yun clearly care about helping others that they have never met...

Author: By Michelle L. Quach | Title: Free Cookies for the Faculty? | 10/10/2009 | See Source »

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