1.   ALREADY I miss the old millennium, and some of the stuff that will get left behind due to limited space in the lifeboats.

2.   For its story is not about the close of a day but rather about the end of the old millennium and the coming of the new.

3.   George was among the first Western musicians to recognize the importance of music traditions millenniums old, which themselves had roots in indigenous music, both popular and classical.

4.   It is time to get right with the old millennium.

5.   So it is easy to understand why Sony Classical has opted to ring out the old millennium with a gargantuan series of midprice CD reissues titled Bernstein Century.

6.   We were sick of the old millennium.

7.   In the end, they are reunited and slay a dragon together, shortly before the clock ticks down the last seconds of the old millennium.