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...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, in a show where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Polishing Up the Badge | 9/30/2002 | See Source »

...There’s already a tension,” Price says. “The tension is, do we stay the course and do what the faculty and administrators have suggested is the path to a better high school, or do we have reason to do other things that make it harder to stay the course...

Author: By Claire A. Pasternack, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Angry Parents Fight for Schools | 9/25/2002 | See Source »

...Israelis couldn't draw out their quarry together, they could pick off the gunmen one by one. Outside the church, they set up a 300-ft.-tall crane and floated a blimp attached to a high-tension cable, mounting surveillance cameras on each. A team of intelligence officers kept track of movements in the church compound and relayed the information to snipers from the Special Police Unit, an elite squad that has the best marksmen in the Israeli services. The intelligence officers communicated with the snipers by using an aerial photo divided into tiny sectors; that made it easier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Saga of the Siege | 5/20/2002 | See Source »

...Kashmir is where the tension between India and Pakistan always surfaces. Kashmir is the biggest bit of unfinished business from the partition of the subcontinent 53 years ago. Pakistan still believes it shouldn't have gone to India, the Indians will probably never let it go, and both sides are more than willing to fight over it?potentially with atomic warheads. Two of the three wars fought between the two countries started off in Kashmir. Since the beginning of the year, both have mobilized their armies along their common border and kept them at high alert, a state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Place for Kids | 5/20/2002 | See Source »

...grounds they had been used to vote for Kabbah. INDIA Jammu's "Massacre of Innocents" Tension between India and Pakistan over the disputed territory of Kashmir rose when three gunmen killed 34 people in a raid on the Kaluchak army base in Jammu. The dead were mainly women and included 11 children. Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee told Parliament last Friday that the "massacre of innocents" meant that India would "have to retaliate." A day later, New Delhi expelled the Pakistani High Commissioner. Since December, the two countries have mobilized some 1 million troops along the border. THE NETHERLANDS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Watch | 5/19/2002 | See Source »

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