Word: millennium
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European investigators are worried that the year-end holiday season will bring another round of al-Qaeda terrorism. Several major year-end assaults have been averted over the past few years, including "millennium bomber" Ahmed Ressam's foiled plot against the Los Angeles airport in 1999 and "shoe bomber" Richard Reid's bungled effort to bring down a Paris-to-Miami jet last Dec. 22. "Al-Qaeda has attempted attacks during the holiday season since 1999," says a French official, "and we have to assume it'll be the same this year." That concern was reflected in a series...
...past quarter-century of American popular culture was ruled by the great mega-franchises of science fiction--Star Wars, Star Trek, Independence Day, The Matrix. But lately, since the turn of the millennium or so, we've been dreaming very different dreams. The stuff of those dreams is fantasy--swords and sorcerers, knights and ladies, magic and unicorns. In 2001 the fantasy double bill of Harry Potter and The Lord of the Rings ranked first and second at the box office, and it's happening all over again this year. In its first weekend alone, Harry Potter and the Chamber...
Like a sleepy Balrog in the depths of Moria, fantasy fever is stirring again. In 1997, voters in a bbc poll named The Lord of the Rings the greatest book of the 20th century. In 1999, Amazon.com customers chose it as the greatest book of the millennium. The Tolkien revival began when the Internet bubble was bursting, the market for consumer electronics was nosediving like Harry Potter chasing the Golden Snitch, and America's long summer romance with technology was fizzling. "Change and technology are so pervasive a part of daily life that for the most part there...
...campaign has taken a hit. On Nov. 24, Chung Mong Joon, the popular head of South Korea's soccer association, pulled out of the race, winnowing what was largely a three-horse contest down to a field of two: Lee versus Roh Moo Hyun, candidate of the ruling Millennium Democratic Party and would-be heir to Kim, whose five-year term as President ends in February...
...week arrested Slimane Khalfaoui, a 27-year-old French citizen of Algerian origin and a veteran of jihads in Bosnia and Afghanistan. Material evidence ties Khalfaoui to a Frankfurt cell busted in December 2000 as it prepared an attack on Strasbourg Cathedral. Khal-faoui has also been linked to "Millennium Bomber" Ahmed Ressam, an al-Qaeda operative convicted in the U.S. for his foiled plan to strike the Los Angeles airport in December 1999. Evidence and testimony indicate both actions were overseen from London by al-Qaeda's main European terror commander, Abu Doha, an Algerian Islamic extremist arrested...