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Despite a mammoth war chest and an (albeit fading) air of invincibility, George W. Bush still understands the famous Tip O'Neill edict: "All politics is local." In Dubya's case, as local as your PC. On Monday, the Bush camp announced that it will be targeting web sites likely...
Y2K: An Historical Perspective
The Medieval Studies Committee is also offering an academic perspective on the millennium. The committee hosted a mini-conference called "Y1K: Did the Millennium Make a Difference?" yesterday afternoon in the Barker Center.
The conference featured three Harvard professors arguing that the year 1000 was of little significance. Richard A. Landes '71, an associate professor at Boston University and co-founder of its Center for Millennial Studies, argued the other side.
But Landes disagreed with their dismissal of first millennium tensions, and said that scribes manipulated the dates at the end of the millennium because they feared an apocalypse. They shifted their interpretation of the beginning of "A.D." to avoid the year 1000.