Word: midnight
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...half-day celebration planned in Philadelphia, in which citizens will follow Mayor Ed Rendell to a different celebratory site each hour. Although that event is going ahead as planned, thousands have canceled - including nearly half of the 1,000 couples expected to participate in a mass wedding at midnight...
Cherica Adams, 24, was gunned down Nov. 16 while driving her black BMW in a tony neighborhood of Charlotte, N.C. It was after midnight when, according to police, she came under fire from a drive-by car with three passengers. She was hit in the neck, chest and abdomen, but managed to call 911, surviving long enough to apparently finger Carruth, who is believed to be the baby's father. Rushed to the hospital, she later delivered her son by emergency C-section. Last week she died. The football player was arrested and released on $3 million bond...
Ultimately, we realize that no amount of editorializing can convince the masses not to celebrate the millennium. Nevertheless, it is important that this newspaper have its opposition on record. After all, if at the stroke of midnight next Friday night, God's Kingdom does descend onto earth, many of us are likely to be banished to Hell. At least now we can say that we're political dissidents...
...family that is affordable and free of alcohol. It presents a smorgasbord of performances, part carnival, all within a few blocks. Afterward I will go home and, with champagne in hand, join my dog Charlie in front of the TV to watch the ball come down at midnight (taped earlier) in New York City. STEPHANIE BOOTH Monterey, Calif...
...your map showing how people around the world will spend New Year's Eve [LIVING, Nov. 29], you suggested that Yanomami tribe members in Roraima, Brazil, will probably ignore the millennium and go to bed early. But at midnight the men will in all likelihood be wide awake, huddling over their campfires and talking about life, just as they do every night. A tribal leader may explain what will be going on in other parts of the world on this night. The men will stand in awe trying to fathom this--for all of three minutes, after which they...