Music Picks for the Millennium:
JD: Ravel's Musique Pour Piano, Chopin's Etudes et Preludes, Vaughn Williams' Job.
MH: Louis Armstrong, West End Blues

Movie Picks:
JD: Les Enfants du Paradis, The Battle of Algiers, Five Miles to Midnight
MH: The General (Buster Keaton)

Book Picks:
JD: C.P. Snow, The Light and the Dark; J.-P. Sartre, Les Chemins de la Liberte; F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
MH: Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

What, in your opinion, was the defining moment or event of the century?
JD: The assassination of Crown Prince Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo in 1914.
MH: The Holocaust.

What, in your opinion, was the defining moment or event of the millennium?
JD: The preaching of the First Crusade by St. Bernard of Clairvaux in Vezelay, France, in the 12th century.
MH: The invention of the printing press.

Where would you like to be when the ball drops?
JD: With my family. We'll all be at NPR.
MH: Why am I always the one accused of having dropped the ball?

Thought or idea you would like to see brought into the new millennium:
JD: "...the future of a large and complex system is unpredictable because it can be altered by small events." --William Rees-Mogg
MH: The Golden Rule.