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...really, the onlookers are the stars. At the final countdown to midnight, we CDEs festooneed them with confetti. The words to "Auld Lang Syne" flashed on one of the JumboTron screens for a million-person singalong. Cameras sent pictures of good cheer and warm passion around the globe. To be in this group, even 28 stories above them on the Renaissance roof, was to show people in 1100 other countries that tough old New York could radiate an exhilarating warmth of community. So listen, world: we launched 2007 beautifully. Try not to screw...
...birthplace of Auld Lang Syne is also the home of Hogmanay, a spectacularly rousing four-day celebration that welcomes the New Year with fire, music, parades and then some more fire. The party starts on Dec. 29 with a 15,000-strong song-filled candlelight procession and fire festival through Edinburgh and ends with the symbolic burning of a Viking longship. Days of parades, concerts, dog races and fireworks follow...
Expertly wielding a 35-inch sword, a Marine officer sliced up a giant chocolate cake to the strains of Auld Lang Syne to kick off a celebration of the 230th anniversary of the Marine Corps at Harvard Business School (HBS) Thursday. In a reunion laced with military tradition, 200 current and former Marines and officers gathered to hear about the history of the Corps, which was founded in 1775 at a Philadelphia tavern, and to discuss more contemporary challenges facing Marines in Iraq. Entering the event, festive Marines in uniform shouted “Happy Birthday?...
...Center Honors show, Walter Cronkite went back onstage at the end and brought out all the cast, performers and crew to salute us. By this time, the aisles were filled with ushers, and he gave a very touching tribute. The audience then turned, faced us and sang Auld Lang Syne. I had dissolved into tears by that time. But Ronnie called down, "Beats getting an Oscar." Only Ronnie could do that...
Lainie Kazan and Iggy Pop will serenade you with Auld Lang Syne as you and yours suck the last dregs from your jeroboam of Roederer Cristal and giant tube worms and deep-sea shrimp (tres joli!) caper about the volcanic sulfide chimneys outside your stateroom's bay windows...