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  • Jeffrey Dvorkin & Murray Horwitz
  • Nick Gibson
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  • Karen Michel
  • Christian Rougeau
  • Scott Simon
  • Mike Starling
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    Information Support Specialist

    Music Picks for the Millennium:
    Tim Reynolds; Dave Matthews Band, Live at Luther College N.W.A; Straight Outa Compton.

    Movie Picks:
    Apocalypse Now, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, Shaft.

    Book Picks:
    Oxford English Dictionary, One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

    What, in your opinion, was the defining moment or event of the century?
    Dropping of the A-bomb on Hiroshima; Apollo 11.

    What, in your opinion, was the defining moment or event of the millennium?
    Invention of pleats.

    Where would you like to be when the ball drops?
    Anywhere but @ NPR.

    Thought or idea you would like to see brought into the new millennium:
    Try rebooting your PC if it doesn't work.

    Thought or idea you would like to see left behind:
    Spam (both meanings).


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