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...have our indomitable optimists. An outfit called the Millennium Society has lined up the QE2 to transport 3,000 people, all presumably upbeat, to a huge celebration at the Great Pyramid of Cheops. The authors of Megatrends 2000 look to "a period of stunning technological innovation, unprecedented economic opportunity, surprising political reform and great cultural rebirth...
...means, approach our fin de siecle, our fin de millennium, with what joy we can muster. Let's get aboard the QE2; let's celebrate at the Great Pyramid or wherever. And then let's get down to work again, and back to reality...
...just left Graceland, your first stop should be the Great American Pyramid, Memphis' new sports coliseum on the banks of the Mississippi right nearby. And if it's summer, glide over the river on the monorail and enjoy yourself in the Riverwalk at Mud Island...
Hence, argued the founding father of Afrocentrist history, the late Senegalese writer Cheikh Anta Diop, whatever is Egyptian is African, part of the lost black achievement; Imhotep, the genius who invented the pyramid as a monumental form in the 3rd millennium B.C., was black, and so were Euclid and Cleopatra in Alexandria 28 dynasties later. Blacks in Egypt invented hieroglyphics, and monumental stone sculpture, and the pillared temple, and the cult of the Pharaonic sun king. The habit of European and American historians of treating the ancient Egyptians as other than black is a racist plot to conceal the achievements...
...Design School Dean Gerald M. McCue informally retraced Pei's career, featuring slides of his most famous works, including the glass pyramid at the Louvre museum in Paris. His aggressively modern style has gained international praise because it combined innovation and symbolism with pragmatism...