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...Year's morning as the lights flicker out around town, money shoots out of ATMs, people panic in the streets, and an errant missile zooms by overhead. On the one hand, the passing of a thousand years is staggering for a mortal of perhaps 80 years' life-span to apprehend; on the other, its commercialization renders it trivial. No wonder some people are stepping back to mark the occasion in a small-scale, personal way--to take a time-out at this ultimate juncture of time...
...police actions, and trips home in body bags. Forays around southern capes in tall ships and across Eurasia in caravans. And just as this millennium is a Western conceit, the story of the past thousand years is largely the story of the tourism of Western peoples over the span of the earth, to encroach on and economically dominate the rest of the world. If fewer representatives of the wealthiest peoples scatter to the shrines and monuments of the cultures they superseded to chant and toast one another, one doubts the ghost of Montezuma will take offense...
Indeed, while some presidents saw increases in their salaries up to 25 percent during the span of one academic year, Rudenstine's salary has increased an average of 1.05 percent each year since...
Having trailed in just one game all season--f or a span of about 30 minutes--Harvard's undefeated freshmen found themselves in a fight for their lives, trailing by a goal in the most important game of their young careers...
With a full roster, the Crimson was a spectacular 14-0-1 in the regular season and trailed in only one contest during that span--for only 30 minutes of game time. Harvard's only loss of the season came against New Hampshire on September 15, and was marked by the absence of all of the team's freshmen, who, due to Harvard University policy, were not allowed to leave campus during orientation week...