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The New Millennium: Countdown to 2000
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  • Jeffrey Dvorkin & Murray Horwitz
  • Nick Gibson
  • David Julian Gray
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  • Christian Rougeau
  • Scott Simon
  • Mike Starling
  • John Stempin
  • Nina Totenberg
  • Karen Michel,
    Freelance Cultural Reporter

    Music Picks for the Millennium:
    Cyndi Lauper, Girls Just Wanna Have Fun; Rolling Stones, Satisfaction; The Beatles, I Am the Walrus; Buena Vista Social Club, Las Dos Gardenias; Big Mamma Willie Mae Thornton, Little Red Rooster; Peggy Lee, Fever; Charles Mingus, Pithecanthropus Erectus.

    Movie Picks:
    His Girl Friday.

    Book Picks:
    Let Us Now Praise Famous Men by James Agee and Walker Evans, Ethics for the New Millenium by the Dalai Lama.

    What, in your opinion, was the defining moment or event of the century?
    Creation of the atomic bomb.

    What, in your opinion, was the defining moment or event of the millennium?
    The invention of the printing press and of the gun.

    Where would you like to be when the ball drops?
    In the woods.

    Thought or idea you would like to see brought into the new millennium:
    Compassion, mindfulness.

    Thought or idea you would like to see left behind:
    War.


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