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...could conceivably look like a scene out of a Quentin Tarantino movie, with different groups of terrorists - unaware of each other and motivated by passions as diverse as Middle Eastern Islamic fundamentalism and midwestern right-wing conspiracy theories - converging to spread bloody mayhem at ground zero of America's millennium celebration. It's a truly scary scenario, in which acolytes of monsters as different as Timothy McVeigh and Osama Bin Laden engage in a kind of terrorism Olympics with innocent New Yorkers as their cannon fodder. But it's a scenario for which federal and city officials are well prepared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America: A Nation on Full Alert | 12/21/1999 | See Source »

...portrait of Ahmed Ressam that has emerged since his arrest for smuggling explosives from Canada last week has fed America's worst fears: On the eve of the millennium, an Algerian man with a trunkload of explosives eludes Canadian authorities, apparently headed for a million-person New Year's party in Seattle, and almost makes it into the U.S. if not for the hunch of a border guard. It makes for one terrifying story to the U.S., which has many terrorist enemies around the world but has stayed generally free of attack on its own soil, and it exposes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Heat's on Canada to Crack Terror Cell | 12/21/1999 | See Source »

...cheap champagne, scream, hoot, and holler, all in celebration of--mathematical ignorance! Yes, folks, The Crimson Staff has given this matter a great deal of thought, and as we all depart for winter vacation, we'd like to say that we are firmly and unequivocally opposed to the millennium...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: A Faux Millennium | 12/21/1999 | See Source »

Even if we were actually 2000 years removed from Christ's birth, the "new millennium" wouldn't begin until next year. If you don't believe us, take the word of Arthur C. Clarke. Clarke wrote a very interesting book called 2001: A Space Odyssey, so we have to assume that he knows something about this subject. He recently issued a press release explaining, "Because the Western calendar starts with Year 1, and not Year 0, the 21st Century and the Third Millennium do not begin until January 1, 2001. Though some people have great difficulty in grasping this, there...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: A Faux Millennium | 12/21/1999 | See Source »

...contrast, in discussions with reporters in Atlanta, Daft struck a determined, confident note. The new millennium, he said "is the year of recovery for the world, and obviously our business will be part of that." The previous growth targets, Daft insisted, will be sustained. That made analysts nervous, because for all his attributes, Coke's new Doug was still sounding very much like the old Doug. Unless the tune changes, they say, the real value of this brand of carbonated sugar water is likely to be put to an even greater test...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Springing A Leak | 12/20/1999 | See Source »

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