Word: dominie
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...Arbor Day, it would be hard to think of an event more contrived than the millennium, unless one accepts that history unfolds in tidy hundred- and thousand-year cycles beginning with the birth of Jesus Christ. Or, to be more precise, his briss, which the inventor of the Anno Domini system of reckoning, a Scythian monk named Dennis the Diminutive, calculated--surely errantly--to have taken place on Jan. 1, A.D. 1. At any rate, the history of the past thousand years shows that mass psychology--if not events themselves--tends to behave in predictable ways when multiple zeros loom...
...itself. Concerning the End, Jesus told his followers that "you know neither the day nor the hour." And St. Peter's second Epistle reminds believers that "with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day." Good verses to memorize as Anno Domini 1999 approaches...
...some respects, alma mater in Anno Domini 2000 will look pretty much the way she does now. "Madonna reinvents herself every season," is the dry observation of Sheldon Hackney, president of the University of Pennsylvania. "Universities are much more stable." Nonetheless, experts foresee quite a few changes -- good as well as bad -- for America's diverse complex of private and public institutions of higher learning. Items...