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...Victory Monument, one of the city's busiest gathering places. Watching the police comb for evidence at Victory Monument, Martin changed her mind about attending the famous New Year's countdown at the Central World Plaza shopping center. "I heard rumors that there might be more explosions at midnight," she said. "It's not worth going, just for a party." Her fears proved well founded: just after midnight, another two bombs erupted, this time near Central World. Although Bangkok authorities had canceled the countdown after the earlier attacks, plenty of people were still milling around the area. All told...
...Bush-Cheney re-election campaign. Schmidt taught the cadre--some of whom are now in charge of large staffs at the '08 campaigns--that the news cycle ends with the 11:35 p.m. comedy shows and starts when the Associated Press sends out fresh stories shortly after midnight. Everyone in the Bush-Cheney diaspora has been schooled in relentlessness and in the power of Matt Drudge's website. Schmidt's precepts: Run a disciplined, efficient operation that looks for small mistakes by the opposition that can be translated into big moments. Just ask John "I Voted for It Before...
...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...
...really, the onlookers are the stars. At the final countdown to midnight, we CDEs festooneed them with confetti. The words to "Auld Lang Syne" flashed on one of the JumboTron screens for a million-person singalong. Cameras sent pictures of good cheer and warm passion around the globe. To be in this group, even 28 stories above them on the Renaissance roof, was to show people in 1100 other countries that tough old New York could radiate an exhilarating warmth of community. So listen, world: we launched 2007 beautifully. Try not to screw...