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...Harvard remained No. 1 when the national poll came out last night. That was because New Hampshire fell at Northeastern on Sunday, 2-1. The Huskies (9-2-1, 6-2-1) replaced the Wildcats (6-2-0, 4-2-0) in the No. 2 spot in the new poll. With Dartmouth idle last weekend, the Huskies also moved into first place in the ECAC...
Tied for last place are Boston College (1-9-0, 0-9-0) and Yale (1-8-0, 0-7-0). Stay tuned for a Jan. 9 match-up at New Haven, when the Elis host the Golden Eagles. This battle of the winless could be extremely ugly...
...still might cause a lot of problems in the world's computers. Especially in third-world nations and in former communist countries, Y2K preparedness is not good. While the United States government started debugging its computer systems years ago, other nations have barely started. A serious disaster on New Year's Day is still a real possibility...
...week, sales for millennium shows and galas have been "tepid." The paper reports that "many worry that what was initially looked at as a historic payday may end up as a bad investment covered in confetti." Celebration 2000, a lavish event to be held at the Javits Center in New York, was cancelled after no one bought tickets. Even singer/songwriter/poet Jewel canceled her hometown New Year's Eve concert in Anchorage after selling only 1,000 seats...
That doesn't seem likely. Although The New York Times newsroom is reportedly awash in hysterics over how to cover the millennium--whether or not the Gray Lady should give in to the poor math of the mob--no one else really cares. For most of us, those three zeroes are pretty convincing...