ABSTRACT
In 2000, in the largest corporate merger until that time, Time Warner was purchased by America Online. Vladimir Putin was elected President of Russia. The anti-trust case United States v. Microsoft Corporation was resolved against Microsoft. A demonstration against globalization took place in Washington, DC. India’s population reached one billion. Bashar al-Assad was elected as his father’s successor in Syria. At Bill Clinton’s urging, Yasser Arafat and Ehud Barak met to hammer out a peace agreement, but talks ultimately failed to produce a tangible result. During naval exercises, the Russian submarine Kursk sank and all aboard perished. Suicide bombers from Al Qaeda blew a large hole in the naval destroyer USS Cole. Hillary Clinton was elected to represent New York in the US Senate.
