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...huge surge of interest produced by the dot-com bubble and feared Y2K disaster—two subjects he says Harvard professors were careful to steer clear of—has already subsided. In 2002, the last year he taught, Zittrain estimates his course had fallen back to a respectable 80 students...
Wesley Clark's volunteers are predominately male and haven't showered in days, and many look like they're still working through their Y2K provisions. The Clark campaign also boasts the only volunteer dog, an underfed beagle named Truman. The future lobbyists are at John Kerry's headquarters, where things hum along like a '90s Internet start-up run by well-dressed New Republic readers. The sweet-natured, churchgoing college interns at the Richard Gephardt campaign are far outnumbered by the brawny volunteer ironworkers. Joe Lieberman's nerdy, beleaguered staff, which is the best-liked in town, works...
...broker a deal. A member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, she has close ties with lawyers, who contributed almost $500,000 to her campaigns over the past five years, more than she received from any other group. Yet she sponsored a bill to protect high-tech firms from Y2K liability, which trial lawyers opposed. And she comes from a medical family. Her father was chairman of the department of surgery at the University of California Medical Center, and her second husband Dr. Bertram Feinstein, who died in 1978, was a neurosurgeon. He had eight malpractice suits filed against...
...champagne shortage of 1999? As we roared into the biggest New Year's Eve celebration ever, fear spread about the stockpile of French (most Americans liked France then) bubbly. The world wondered whether it would be left high and dry at the dawn of the millennium. And dark. The Y2K bug was supposed to fry the embedded chips in electronic devices ranging from toasters to mainframes. Defending its honor, Paris threw a spectacular millennium party on Dec. 31, 1999, bubbles and all, and the day of Y2K came and went with nary a ripple of disaster...
When Jonze was just a skate-punk director of videos (Beastie Boys' Sabotage, Weezer's Buddy Holly, Fatboy Slim's Weapon of Choice, which features a dancing Christopher Walken) and commercials (Nike's Y2K spoof, Lee Jeans' Buddy Lee series), and the producer who brought Jackass to MTV, he would mumbleshrug his way through interviews...