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...after laying out this bleak out-look for the short term, Reich dismissed it, shifting the focus of his speech from a discussion of Washington politics to one on the themes relevant to the Democratic Party at the turn of the millennium...
...MILLENNIUM-BUG TRIAGE: 93 WEEKS AND COUNTING...
...secret that come Millennium Eve, computers everywhere may be crashing faster than the Indonesian rupiah. Last week U.S. officials admitted that they've fixed only 35% of the most vital federal mainframes and won't have time before Dec. 31, 1999, to prevent all the 5,100 remaining machines from deciding it's 1900, not 2000. "Financial transactions could be delayed, airline flights grounded and national defense affected," warns the General Accounting Office's Gene Dodaro. Not to mention anyone caught in an elevator...
Carrasco called this phenomenon the "brown millennium...
...this is Madonna '98, at the close of an exhausted millennium, when shock comes hard, when irony is so overdone it can only be used ironically, when everything has come full circle and the Spice Girls can look and sound the way Madonna did 15 years ago and still be hailed as fresh and fun. So you move on. Madonna is the head of the record label--the aptly named Maverick--that released last year's band of the moment, the electronica-charged act the Prodigy (Maverick is part of Time Warner, the company that owns TIME). It makes sense...