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The New Millennium: Countdown to 2000
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  • Jeffrey Dvorkin & Murray Horwitz
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  • John Stempin
  • Nina Totenberg
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    Music Picks for the Millennium:
    Ira Gershwin, Rhapsody in Blue; Elvis Presley, That's All Right.

    Movie Picks:
    Citizen Kane, Orson Welles.

    Book Picks:
    To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Dr. Spock's Baby and Childcare Book by Dr. Benjamin Spock.

    What, in your opinion, was the defining moment or event of the century?
    The end of WWII.

    What, in your opinion, was the defining moment or event of the millennium?
    Roman Emperor Constantine converts to Christianity.

    Where would you like to be when the ball drops?
    With friends, outside on the National Mall.

    Thought or idea you would like to see brought into the new millennium:
    That our lives are more than material goods, work and Y2K.

    Thought or idea you would like to see left behind:
    Any belief that one race or religion is superior to all others.


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