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...very issues that were emphasized in order to divide the Democrats have boomeranged, and are splitting the Republicans. Dinesh D'Souza, in his book on Jerry Falwell, Falwell: Before the Millennium, describes how the religious right planned to use abortion as a wedge issue. At sessions to form the Moral Majority, Paul Weyrich said the movement should "focus attention on the abortion issue, because it would split the Democratic Party, while hardly affecting the Republican vote." Paradoxically, the very decision they hated -- Roe v. Wade -- gave these political operatives the cover they needed: so long as that ruling...
Irish pop music is the art of the drone: the mournful monotone of Enya, U2 and Sinead O'Connor, singing elegies to the millennium. Now comes the Irish quartet CLANNAD (whose lead singer, Maire Brennan, is Enya's sister) and an album, Anam, that has all the right career moves: a duet with U2's Bono, a song from the hit movie Patriot Games. The group merits a listen. Brennan's soprano keenings, in English and Gaelic, are variously backed by cool, Sergio Mendes-style harmonies, a bluesy sax, and a guitar's banshee wailing. But in the tune Harry...
...assume that the next millennium will be the Millennium...
...means, approach our fin de siecle, our fin de millennium, with what joy we can muster. Let's get aboard the QE2; let's celebrate at the Great Pyramid or wherever. And then let's get down to work again, and back to reality...
When Eastern Orthodox leaders met in Istanbul for the first time in a millennium to claim a new, more assertive role for their church, they achieved a remarkable degree of unity with one another. But their joint decree last week revealed a serious disagreement with other Christians...