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The New Millennium: Countdown to 2000
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    Music Picks for the Millennium:
    Planet Rock, Africa Bambaata; Stravinsky, Rite of Spring; Bartok, Concerto for Orchestra; Bill Haley and the Comets, Rock Around the Clock; John Coltrane, My Favorite Things.

    Movie Picks:
    Life is Beautiful, Schindler's List, Rear Window.

    Book Picks:
    Ulysses by James Joyce, Working by Studs Terkel, Underworld by Don Delillo.

    What, in your opinion, was the defining moment or event of the century?
    Start of WWII; drop of A-bomb.

    What, in your opinion, was the defining moment or event of the millennium?
    The invention of the printing press and the computer; 1066: The Norman Conquest.

    Where would you like to be when the ball drops?
    Riiiiight under it.

    Thought or idea you would like to see brought into the new millennium:
    Killing people is not a good way to solve problems. It's also just a bad idea in general.

    Thought or idea you would like to see left behind:
    Capitalism, and the oppression of people as we know it.


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