Word: millennium
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...died, so did China's global ambitions. Mandarins decided that oceangoing voyages were a waste of time and money; soon the great naval shipyards in Nanjing had been broken up, and China retreated into a self-absorbed attitude of mind that it would not lose for half a millennium. It's a cautionary note, a reminder that the waves of trade that knit us together can ebb as well as flow. There is a famous passage in The Economic Consequences of the Peace, written by John Maynard Keynes in 1920, which every student of globalization knows by heart. Keynes describes...
...Today, Summers’–– trip takes place at a time of rising economic integration between rich and poor regions of the world. The shift “has the potential to be one of the three most important economic events in the last millennium, alongside the Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution,” Summers said last month at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. —Javier C. Hernandez contributed to the reporting of this story. —Staff writer Nicholas M. Ciarelli can be reached at ciarelli@fas.harvard.edu...
...Kennedy School faced hard times at the turn of the millennium. The SARS epidemic and Sept. 11 terrorist attacks contributed to the fiscal downturn, according to a Melodie L. Jackson, a spokeswoman for the school...
...quite sell itself. Battling everything from bad reviews to bizarre bicycling accidents, Stereolab’s had it pretty tough the last couple of years. There have been personnel shifts, distracting side projects, and, most damaging, the death of vocalist Mary Hansen. This hectic beginning to the millennium seems to have left Stereolab a bit dazed, a shell of its former self. Try as they might, the group’s most recent release sounds like they’re just going through the motions. There’s very little on “Fab Four” that...
...book takes place in Mexico City, at the turn of the last millennium. Carla, an American in her early twenties, has the wanderlust of many people her age. She goes to Mexico because she is "sick of everybody" and because she wants to find the roots of her resented "disappearing Mexican dad." The reasons for her arrival and prolonged year-long stay become a central theme in the book, as Carla's ideas of Mexico, loaded with all kinds of cultural assumptions, clash with the reality. Overstaying her travel visa she becomes a reverse illegal immigrant, working under the table...