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...crime-in-new-bottles strategy owes a lot to the forensics hit CSI, which uses high-tech camera tricks to underscore its theme of better crime fighting through science. Its spin-off, CSI: Miami (CBS, Mondays, 10 p.m. E.T.), likewise offers stylish flashback scenes, overexposed with flashbulb-like bursts of light, and special effects that take us on a Fantastic Voyage--style journey inside pieces of evidence. The setup is similar enough to satisfy CSI fans, but the few variations are missteps, especially the grim performances and the broadly telegraphed sexual tension between leads David Caruso and Kim Delaney. Still...
...decades of ethnic-based conflict between the Sinhalese and Tamil populations, there is only one truly national hero: Muttiah Muralitharan. He is not a politician or a pop star. He is a southern-born Tamil, the son of a candy maker, blessed with the unlikely ability to spin a cricket ball like a top. In Tamil-controlled territory only the fearsome and reclusive Tamil Tiger rebel leader Velupillai Prabakharan matches his legend. In the bombed-out streets of Jaffna on the northern peninsula, Muralitharan's picture is pasted on bullet-pocked walls in ads hawking insurance...
...thin on the ground at Waste Expo; four lonely exhibitors huddle forlornly in the "Technology Pavilion," fully half a mile from the main entrance and conveniently adjacent to the "Medical Waste Pavilion." Tracey Anderson of CFA, which markets a computer program to track truck-fleet maintenance, bravely tries to spin her booth's isolation: "It's almost a blessing in disguise, because the people coming back here are really looking...
...convoluted tale about the local volcanoes: Ibolobu is man, and Enerea is nature, married to Manulabu, the rooster. Ibolobu falls for Enerea and fights Manulabu for her. In the end, the rooster's head is chopped off, leaving Ibolobu free to wed Enerea. Muja takes half an hour to spin the yarn, puffing away on hand-rolled, pungent cigarettes, pulling faces and waving his hands around. I'm transfixed, a captive audience?not least because in one flailing hand is a fearsome machete he seems to have forgotten he's holding...
...problem with the name Patriot Day goes deeper than its failure to see the worldwide aspect of the Sept. 11 tragedy. Putting a patriotic spin on such a day is emotionally and intellectually dishonest. Thinking of patriotism on Sept. 11 would no doubt make us feel better about the tragedy, but the anniversary is a time when we need to feel the deep sadness of the event. Something terrible happened on Sept. 11, and we should not try to lessen our grief by ascribing false meaning to the attacks...