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    Music Picks for the Millennium:
    The Beatles, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and The White Album.

    Movie Picks:
    Dr. Strangelove.

    Book Picks:
    Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Catch 22 by Joseph Heller.

    What, in your opinion, was the defining moment or event of the century?
    The first atomic bomb dropped on Japan.

    What, in your opinion, was the defining moment or event of the millennium?
    1517: Martin Luther, an Augustinian monk, posts his 95 theses on the door of the castle chapel in Wittenburg, beginning the Protestant movement.

    Where would you like to be when the ball drops?
    Under it with a mitt.

    Thought or idea you would like to see brought into the new millennium:
    Borders are the greatest barrier to peace.

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


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