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...decline of the prophet cartoon also seems to coincide with my sense that, the infectious enthusiasm of crazy comet cults notwithstanding, the new millennium is itself well on the way to becoming played out. For those of us who are neither waiting around for aliens nor gearing up for a fire fight with the new world order, the big rollover is shaping up as the Super Bowl of infrequent calendrical events: overblown and unsatisfying in equal proportion, the last in a long line of 20th century hot-air generators. Newspapers and magazines have already struck up regular millennium sections; special...
Admission notices for the class of 2001 were mailed last month. Of the more than 2000 acceptance letters sent out, some 130 were addressed to foreign addresses --the first class of the new millennium (claims by current first-years not with-standing), like its predecessor classes, will include about six percent international students. But for a university which is a center of global excellence, and which counts diversity as one of its twin hallmarks, six percent is not a large enough number...
...logged on to the Heaven's Gate Website. There I discovered some of the most mind-numbing material I have ever read. It amounted to a 96-page suicide note. I don't believe the approach of the millennium is going to have a profound effect on the universe or the planet. But in that strange universe that is the human mind, different laws apply. Anything is possible. MATT BUTTS St. Louis Park, Minnesota...
There are two Americas: the original American Republic we know from history books and personal experiences, and the subterranean shadow Republic that has been taking shape since the turbulent '60s. It is this struggle between the dying First Republic and the burgeoning Second Republic, not the end of our millennium, that is haunting the American people. The only way to save our national sanity is to acknowledge the existence of the Second Republic so we can deal realistically with the problems that led to its birth. And the sooner the better! MARC RANGEL New York City...
...that allows cheats to get away with tax scams. We must urge Congress to allot the IRS enough money to achieve the efficiency that is our right. The public will pay one way or another, and I prefer to get a system that will take us into the next millennium instead of allowing petty thieves to siphon off money for personal use. CATHERINE MERGEN Bloomingdale, Illinois...