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Trust Wall Street to spot a hot investment play in what threatens to become the computer glitch of the century. The snafu--a.k.a. the Millennium Bug--arises because corporate and government computers recognize years by their last two digits, and thus will be unable to tell the year 2000 from 1900. Fixing the problem could cost $600 billion...
...outfits like Data Dimensions and Viasoft that are racing to devise solutions. The options represent bundles of stocks in the index, named after the computer consulting firm De Jager & Co., which took a lead in addressing the 2000 issue. If these companies can't find a solution before the millennium, a new breed of speculators--call them bugbears--could get mighty rich...
...conference beginning today titled "Non-profit Institutions in the Next Millennium," will honor the beginning of the center...
...Cantata 2000" was the best piece of work to have shown at Harvard in the last three years. The talented student cast delivered their own diatribes, as if they were written for a Forensics League contest "Picture the Millennium." Among the smartest was the entry from Dani D. Krasner '97, a feminist rant which evoked her frustration with below-grade men in painfully high-noted terms. Another excellent piece, "Something to Tell You," written by Visiting Director Elizabeth Swados, was a love song in which a male bisexual and female bisexual reveal their orientations to each other at the same...
...moving, and the ten talented actors are engaging and play all of the roles with a seemingly unending reserve of energy. The show's approach to storytelling is original and holds together a unique panorama of current emotions and ideas, lending hope not only to the turn of millennium but to the ability of theater to entertain in fresh, new formats...