Word: millennium
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They are perhaps the world's best-loved instrumental group. For more than three decades, in exotic venues from the Vatican to the Great Wall of China, the Chieftains have played traditional Irish music--half a millennium's worth of jigs and reels--on such contraptions as the tiompan, the uilleann pipes, the bodhran and the tin whistle. The only instrument they lacked was a charismatic human voice. It's true that one band member, Kevin Conneff, was given to "singing the odd song now and again, when we let him," as the Chieftains' chief, Paddy Moloney, said...
...than his own presidency. For all intents and purposes, the whole future of the American presidency rests on the decisions he will or will not make in the next two years. It he can get reelected, he will be the first president to carry the nation into the next millennium. A slack or obtuse performance here is sure to have a long-lasting and rippling effect on the nation's perception of the role that the president plays in our government. Finally, Clinton must be cautious of those who advise him to move to the right (or further...
Though the quick pace of change ensures that Duke's 2001 is little more than a stopgap remedial course for the time being, Fulton's students will nonetheless graduate with valuable basic knowledge of the modern tools of communication. Soon after the new millennium rolls around, however, such a catch-up Odyssey will probably be unnecessary -- at Duke or anywhere else. By that time it will have become the 21st century equivalent of that 1950s relic, Typing...
...inseparable.'' Our generation proved in cyberspace that where self-reliance leads, resilience follows, and where generosity leads, prosperity follows. If that dynamic continues, and everything so far suggests that it will, then the information age will bear the distinctive mark of the countercultural '60s well into the new millennium...
Next year, the Democrats must present a unified front with Gore at the head. Little by Little, this country will realize that Al Gore is the person to lead it into the next millennium. Daniel Altman's column appears on alternate Mondays...