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...MILLENNIUM IS THE COMET that crosses the calendar every thousand years. It throws off metaphysical sparks. It promises a new age, or an apocalypse. It is a magic trick that time performs, extracting a millisecond from its eternal flatness and then, poised on that transitional instant, projecting a sort of hologram that teems with the summarized life of the thousand years just passed and with visions of the thousand now to come...
...millennial date is an arbitrary mark on the calendar, decreed around the ^ year 525 by the calculations of an obscure monk. The celebrated 2000, a triple tumbling of naughts, gets some of its status from humanity's fascination with zeroes -- the so-called tyranny of tens that makes a neat, right-angle architecture of accumulating years, time sawed into stackable solidities, like children's blocks. And it is true, of course, that the moment may signify little to non-Christians...
Purists like to point out that, technically speaking, the beginning of the new millennium does not really occur on Jan. 1, 2000, but on Jan. 1, 2001. This is because there is no year zero in the Christian era, on which historical calendars are calculated. The first year of the era is called A.D. 1, and the one immediately preceding is 1 B.C. Therefore, by the time the calendar reaches Jan. 1, 2000, only 1,999 years will have elapsed since A.D.'s starting point. The same phenomenon occurs as each new century is recorded. In popular observance, however...
These landmarks in the Ivy calendar will help determine the tone for the rest of Harvard's league schedule, which still includes both the Big Green and the Tigers. Crimson G. Bart Kasowski PING LEE and JOSH MARTIN (9) celebrate a goal earlier this season. There wasn't much joy Thursday, however, when the team lost...
...Seeing how heavily booked my calendar was, I tried to ensure that they would have some discussion in University Hall immediately," he said...