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...core financials and the systems that looked to threaten human safety have, for the most part, been reprogrammed to be able to deal with the date change. And to test the effect of these corrective measures, the University has turned the clock forward to make sure its important machinery doesn't shut down...
Whether you're scared of the Y2K bug, psyched for a new beginning in a world where time starts at zero or afraid that the universe will end when the clock strikes midnight, next New Year's Eve is shaping up to be the Main Event. (A note to all you mathematicians--yes, the new millennium does technically begin in 2001, but the apocalyptic nature of all those zeroes has us focusing on 2000 as the de facto turning point...
...beginning of a new one consumes our imaginations. It seems reasonable to believe that after such a long period as a 1,000 years (three zeroes' worth of time in our base-10 system), something must be about to happen. The only question is, what? When the clock strikes and the ball drops, will everything explode in a sequel to the Big Bang? Probably not. Will the world start afresh, free of war and strife and instead filled with peace and tranquility? It sure would be nice, but I doubt...
...party to belong to, considering it had a hand in delivering three Ivy League championships and a historic moment last March, when Miller sank a three-pointer with 46 seconds on the clock to clinch the women's basketball team's unprecedented upset of top-seeded Stanford in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. But the Crimson guard/forward and off-court pre-med says the moment, which immortalized her in Harvard sports history, was just that. A moment...
Harvard has pledged to renovate Widener Library, Harvard Hall, Holden Chapel and University Hall, rebuild the clock tower atop Memorial Hall, construct a home for its newly inaugurated center for Genomics and Proteomics, and revising its plans for the Knafel Center for the Social Sciences...