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...facts procedural began with NBC's powerhouse Law & Order (L&O) in 1990, but it took nine years for creator Dick Wolf to spin off Special Victims Unit, and the series was never widely imitated before the CSI explosion. Now the schedule is so crowded with procedurals that CSI: NY had to debut against the original L&O. To the surprise of TV analysts, it beat the veteran in its first outing and most weeks since. Even so, some within the CSI family have been worried about overextending; original CSI star William Petersen has publicly chided CBS for diluting...
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...
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...friends call me the volunteer whore,” says Kamilah O. Dixon ’05. A pre-med biology concentrator from Lowell House, Dixon hails from Long Island, NY and is as ambitious and focused on a career in the nonprofit world as many of her peers are who have their eyes on the money. Her resume of volunteer work is impressive, with experience in several programs under her belt and a head full of ideas for new services Harvard can offer the world...
Even if there is a bit of a residual effect from Yale’s near miss last weekend, the talent gap here is too large to ignore. Yale wins going away—something residents of lonely Ithaca, NY could surely appreciate...