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...Mary Corliss and I joined the corps of Confetti Dispersal Engineers on New Year's Eve, as we had once before, on the so-called millennium of 1999-2000. We joined our chers amis Davie Lerner, Giacomo Ghiozzi, Victor Nelson and Gilbert Ireland, all CDEs of many consecutive years' standing. None of us had to blow up the 20,000 balloons due to be given out to the crowd; that task went to other people with more capacious lung power ... no, actually they use pumps. But we were on duty for nearly eight hours, as the elves in Father Time...
...crowd has changed too, in size, tone and demographic. On New Year's Eve 40 years ago, in my Columbia U. days, I came out of a 42nd Street movie theater, noticed that it was a few minutes after midnight and was able to call my mother on a pay phone just around the corner from the revelers, who probably numbered in the low hundred-thousands. These days you'd need to be the mayor, or Christina Aguilera (who sang last night), to be in that spot. The crosstown streets are barricaded from late afternoon, and to get a good...
...Times Square visitors, the "ride" on New Year's Eve is about the same length - the shouting, singing and hugging at midnight - but it's preceded by eight or more hours of standing in the cold in one of those pens. So the pre-show comprises live and taped music acts and, at the top of each hour from 7 p.m. on, a countdown to zero second and a feed from whatever region (London, England; Ponta Verde, Brazil) is celebrating its midnight moment. That's when Treb's troops would fling into action, unfurling, say, the Mylar strips that blanketed...
...Congressional Democrats who have spent 12 long years in the minority, New Year's Eve was merely a prelude to the real celebration that will take place this Thursday, when they will officially take over the reins of power on Capitol Hill. But the party would be wise not to party too hard. Its ambitious plans for changing how Washington operates face daunting obstacles - the biggest being the Iraq war - and it may not be long before it starts feeling the hangover...
...really good things to what we have here. I can remember coming here and remembering people saying, "You're going way out to West Texas? " Well, my assistant coach and I are going to go play golf when this conversation is over. On the day before New Years Eve, I went pheasant hunting. There are so many things to do out here and so many things that are close. The things that I like and the kind of people that I like are here in abundance. There couldn't be a better place...