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Many of the media's millennial specials that do look on either side of the Main Event are useful; the New York Times Magazine's six special issues on the last 1,000 years, and "Millennium," a British television production, take advantage of the historical moment to examine broad trends facing society. On the other hand, London's Millennium Dome, created as a massive ode to the year 2000 complete with art displays, computer exhibits and a multi-million dollar price-tag, is a good example of the movie opening mentality--creating a huge structure in honor of one fleeting...
That January 8, 1900 edition of The Crimson, with its brief look at the happenings of the previous century, is of course not the kind of in-depth review needed for an entire millennium. But its approach of examining the past in appreciation and then moving on to the future without hype, without fear of apocalypse or blind expectation of a momentous event, is worth emulating...
...just a celebration of the end of a capital campaign...but the program is going to be an opportunity to take stock of where the University stands at the start of a new millennium," Fineberg says...
Both University Marshal Richard M. Hunt and Commencement Director Grace A. Scheibner see next spring's Commencement as a prime time to celebrate Harvard's rich history while greeting the new millennium...
...those not content to celebrate the year 2000 from just one exotic location, Harvard University Museum of Cultural and Natural History is offering a "Around the World Millennium Expedition"--planning to whisk its voyagers from Easter Island to Western Samoa and on to Timbuktu, Mali with New Guinea and Tanzania in between...