This millennium we can do both. In a series of messages for the new era, achievers of the 20th century reflected on the many gains made in science, space and beyond and the too few tyrannies vanquished. From Lebanon to London, Moscow to Milan, they spoke as one in pleading for a new age of peace after a night of unforgettable parties. Have a good thousand years. Others wanted good times AND a better world.
Pop stars have two instincts.
They want to have fun and they want to change the world. But his plea for the poor was just one on a long wish list that emerged from a series of millennium interviews conducted around the world by Reuters Television. I think it's going to be a better world. Politicians preferred the rule of law. For Mikhail Gorbachev, credited with helping free the people of the former Soviet Union, this is a chance to cast aside past horrors and look to a brighter future.