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...Creator Shawn Ryan says he was inspired to write The Shield by L.A.'s Rampart police scandal. "At the same time," he says, "I was reading about all these politicians crowing about how crime was down. I drew the connection that maybe these guys were dirty but successful." Ryan, a veteran of CBS buddy-cop show Nash Bridges, hired another network-cop-series refugee as his lead: Michael Chiklis, who in ABC's The Commish was a cop as plump and sweet as a powdered doughnut. For The Shield, he shaved his head, hit the gym and gave...
When Napster filed for bankruptcy last week - a technical move that was part of its takeover by German media giant Bertelsmann - it was music to record executives' ears. It meant that the threat unleashed by an 18-year-old named Shawn Fanning, who had 60 million people using his software to download free music, was finally contained. When Napster returns it will be a "legitimate" corporate site, with orderly, paying customers. That's the plan, but containing Napster is not the same as controlling the file-swapping community. The music industry has tried everything from lawsuits to substitutes, launching sites...
Fuller and Lambert, along with senior Shawn Parker and junior Sean Meeker, made up the Crimson 4x100 relay team in the outdoor season that broke the school record several times—the best performance being a 40.72-second mark in a second-place finish at Heps...
...ensuing kickoff after the Morris-to-Taylor hookup, Crimson junior Xavier Goss forced a fumble that was recovered by senior Shawn Parker at the Dartmouth 32. On the next play, Morris made eye contact with Fitzpatrick and signaled to the rookie that he wanted to switch the play and run a fade rather than a crossing route...
With the music industry asleep at the wheel, Shawn Fanning, a first-year at Northeastern, drew up a bit of technology history of his own. While plodding through his first-year classes, the young Cape Cod native was programming a little ditty called Napster, an application that promised to make MP3 distribution easy and fast. Turns out he was way ahead of more than just the rich executives at Warner and BMG. While students eagerly traded the latest Britney songs, Harvard’s Internet connection started feeling the weight of a whole new breed of traffic. Students weren?...