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November 23, 2001

The Drama (or Not) of Higher Education

By JANE ROSENZWEIG

If you're a regular TV viewer, you may have noticed the recent ads on CBS promoting "justice for all Tuesday," a three-hour prime-time lineup of dramas that all happen to be set in the nation's courts. The evening begins with the military legal drama JAG and is followed by a new show called The Guardian, about a corporate-lawyer-turned-childadvocate, and winds up with Judging Amy, which is set in family court.

I was struck by CBS's ad campaign because here, finally, was a network

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