January 2000 |
Slowly, Slowly, Slowly, the Year's First Dawn
Saturday January 1 By SETH MYDANS
"This is one chance in 1,000, and I've got it, I've captured it," she said.
"It's beautiful, an oval shape, and there's a curve underneath and it's
bluish. Oh, it's beautiful and you see the whole beautiful face of it, like a
mirror, like a diamond, round and beautiful."
World Greets Year 2000 Safely
Saturday January 1 9:40 AM ET
By DEBORAH HASTINGS AP National Writer
While the vast majority of the globe's celebrations went off without a hitch, scores were injured in Paris and a man was killed in
Las Vegas after he fell off a lightpole. In Sierra Leone, scarred by years of civil war, residents spent the night confined to their
homes by a dusk-to-dawn curfew.
Putin Takes Over in Russia
Saturday January 1 2:23 AM ET By JIM HEINTZ Associated Press Writer
``To be honest, I didn't think anything of Yeltsin lately,'' said Lena Matrosva, a 27-year-old teacher. ``There was just this person
we had, but he did not mean anything.''
Moderate earthquake shakes New York-Canada border
Saturday January 1, 10:23 am Eastern Time
Boatload of 300 Haitians Stranded Off Miami
Saturday January 1 11:00 AM ET By Jim Loney
Y2K Bug Could Strike Later
Saturday January 1 11:53 AM ET By Robert Mahoney
Russian and U.S. military officials working side by side at a joint command center set up at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado
Springs, Colorado, to monitor nuclear missiles said there were no disruptions.
The Party's Never Over in the New Times Square
January 3, 2000 By HERBERT MUSCHAMP
At Times Square the distraction industries have been coaxed into
exposing themselves in public, urban space. And they do so at a time
when they are among the leading industries in the world today. The
spectacle is both marvelous and horrifying. A place of indiscriminate
illusion, it also sits on a bedrock of truth.
Stocks Hammered in Late Trading
Tuesday January 4 3:27 PM ET By Eric Wahlgren
Israel, Palestinians Sign Land Handover Deal
Tuesday January 4 3:40 PM ET
Greenspan Renominated As Fed Chief
Tuesday January 4 4:12 PM ET - By Arshad Mohammed
Greenspan, a 73-year-old Republican who took the reins at the central bank in 1987, said he had agreed to stay in the job in part because of the ``unimaginable intellectual interest'' of putting economic theory to the test in the financial markets.
GOP Candidates Debate in N.H.
Friday January 7 3:13 AM ET By GLEN JOHNSON Associated Press Writer
An animated Keyes said, ``I will return to the ban on homosexuals in the military.''
Forbes said open gays should not be allowed, saying the military is ``not an agency for social experimentation.''
After struggling to be heard, Hatch offered an indirect response, saying ``I will not expect anybody in the military to live any way
other than the way I live.''
Lloyd Webber buys theater chain
Sunday January 9 7:34 PM ET By Matt Wolf
This latest negotiation, Lloyd Webber said Sunday, ``has enormous implications for keeping the theater chain in the hands that it should be kept in and not in the
hands of pen-pushers and money-crunchers.''
AOL, Time Cite Social Goals
Tuesday January 11 9:36 AM ET
``This is not just about big business. This is not just about money,'' said Gerald Levin, the Time Warner chairman who will be chief executive of the new linkup.
Nashville's Music City News Closes After 37 Years
Tuesday January 11 4:17 PM ET
Nashville's Music City News Closes After 37 Years
Tuesday January 11 4:17 PM ET