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Show COUGS TOP PANTHERS BUYER FRENZY Y2K BASH Overtime victory, 83-75 B-1 Stock market leaps again D-1 Utah ready for New Year’s E-1 Ghe Salt LakeGri http://www.sitrib.com une Utah’s Independent Voice Since 1871 Volume 259 Numt ©1998, The SaltLLake Tribune 143 South Main Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 94111 lephone numbers listed on.A-2 FRIDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1999 o NAME GAME Be Hieek with iistery, Let the Party Begin Battle Over Catchy Naval Observatory with a voice thatdoes Not invite debate. When will the millennium celebrations take place? A week from tonight, on Dec. 31, 1999. Web Addresses Is Getting Bitter year of the second 1,000-year period in the dating system established by the 6thcentury monk Dionysius Exiguus, who was working before the invention of the zero. Hestarted his system with the year 1 A.D., his calculation of the year of the Theyear 2000 actually is but the final birth of Christ. Thus, every century since officially endsonthelast day of the 100th year in thiscase, Dec. 31, 2000,a year from now.The dawn ofthe year 2000, therefore,is not the beginningof a millennium,butthe beginningof the end. To that end, TheSalt Lake Tribune this morning presents a list of major millennium celebrations taking piace a weekfrom tonight in the Calendar section. Page E-! High Price Tag. BY LESLEY MITCHELL THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Noonedisputes that VisionNet developed a Website that allows the public to Of Indifference | view homes for sale by Utah Realtors. Whatis debatable is whether the Sait Lake City company owns the domain ea or Web address — for .utahrealestate.com, which is op- ai by the Wasatch FrontRegional Voters’ cynicism encouragespoliticians :: to focus on infighting, shun compromises Multiple Listing Service. Ina federal lawsuit, VisionNet 3 ac- cused the Multiple Listing Service snatching control of the Website ‘sion: Net created. VisionNet, during hearings this week, asked U.S. District Judge Dale Kimball to BY JON FRANDSEN GANNETT NEWSSERVICE grantan order halting the listing ser- vice’s controlofthe site, which provides WASHINGTON — If a num- information on more than 12,000 homes, condominiums, farms and other proper- ber of Americans getthe feeling that governing in Washingtonis mostly about these guysfighting ties for sale. The listing service, which compiles home-sales data for Realtors, paid VisionNet more than $200,000 to develop the site. It insists VisionNet has no right to the site or the domain name, with those guys, they might be right. As more U.S. citizens have turned off to politics and fewer and fewer have voted, Democrats and Republicans increasingly have sought to win elections less by appealing to a broad The Web page always has resided on a listing-service computer,president and chiefexecutiveofficer Jim Naccarato swath of citizens and more by energizing and exciting the activists in their own parties. said. “It was my understanding all along that utahrealestate.com belonged to us.” The debate places the twoparties at the Because they are beholden to those activists, lawmakers are center ofa nationwide debate over domain names and who owns them. Such conflicts arise because concise, easy-toremember Web addresses have become valuable commodities as more companies develop an Internet presence and work to draw consumers to their sites. In April, Eric Wade,a former Alba- less likely to compromise on issues lest their supporters see them as giving in. ‘That dynamic helps to explain whyit has been so difficult for Congress and the White House to even discuss compromise on maiorsean such as overhaul- ing Social Security and M ee light ight il ilumi titled “Tokyo Millenario” on Wednesday in Tokyo to celebrate the upcoming millennium.It was lighted in a test for its upcoming nine-day run starting tonight. Can the most enduring American poem standupto little scrutiny? Tony Fabrizio, a Republican pollster, said the parties’ need to differentiate themselves has increasingly pushed them to “allor-nothing positions, so what you haveis gridlock.” “Ultimately, a lot of people are just turned off and tuneout. A lotthink,‘Thisis just partisan bickering. I believe there are simpler solutions.’ ... They don’t view things in as rigid terms as do the leadershipon the Hill,” Fabrizio said. The GOPdecision to push a $792 billion tax cut package this summer despite the certainty that it would be vetoed by Clinton and could never texme law is a tes in bath 1 for areas that both sides needed to be addressed, but GOP Worse, they say,is the pattern leaders ruled out any compro- mise,atleast this year. tax issue for months but polls indicated thatall of their effort and talk had donelittle to activists. Republicans pushed on the change public attitudes. But Re- publicans insisted they got what they were looking for. “You're looking at the wrong “Participation in our politics polls,” House GOP Whip Tom over 25 percent nationally since the 1960s. Weare likely to continue this decline as ourBin increasingly dom- asking real objective ques- (through voting] has declined by y, R-Texas, said at a Noabe news “The polls that we looked at, and are tions, shows that we did move the numbers, and particularly See VOTERS,Page A-6 spected observer of American BY JOAN MURRAY LOS ANGELES TIMES SLOC Plan Ignores Traffic, Environment, Report Says A Visitfrom St. Nicholas (better known as BY LINDA FANTIN ‘THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE The poem virtually crea’ Environmentis one of the Santa Claus, and after 175 years, it remains a fixture of our Christmas celebration. It’s one of the few poems that’s had a popular audi- three Olympic principles. But eight generations, Why has it fared charties SLOC helps “Why are we planning toinconvenience locals so that visitors can drive at will? We should encouraging everyoneae In a tersely worded critique, SLOC’s environmental committee says the proposal ignores such fundamental issues as snow removal and weatherrelated delays. It contains no contingencies if federal funding falls through, no discussion of how of wn[atts consider the firet couplet: “Twas the night before Christmas, when all thronghthe house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. rice east,ae eee ee beak place creates an aura sus- Sena ‘not going on, he povpebwstt same to tell us ‘us eager to gine ose ‘who might 1 @ @ 48 Latino Chiietmas in LA. Sinterktass’ sidekick Arizona reindeer Utah's not-s0-white Christmas Tuechlidren were nestledallsnug in their i eoroant moc vs ‘a company pays someone else to cresta Webal, heconpany Gatpl for the sitee errata said Mikki Barry, president and director la ca picepeng eagle the interests of the interested few.” less Washington does to address major problems, the more disenchanted people become, and the more disenchanted people be- loudest and best organized "Tis The Nicht Before Chika wehavea governmentby and for aegit registered 1. a et te cate arts VisionNet originally named itself the onrner when it pala the fee to register the utahrealestate.com for the people,” Gans said, “but has becomea vicious circle: The come, the more vulnerable the parties are to the whims of their lion for AltaVista.com, an search engine. Domain names are registered with Net- “We are ae to have a government by the people and ijt Congen Conspanet Corp. eeeen ‘The Light Fantastic “adh at rector Valeo Feet and his djpanese pertner Hirokazu imackateplay thelr American Electorat Hit ofSanta Monica, Calif., for $7.5 million. Computer maker GatewayInc., which operates a manufacturing plantin Salt LaieCHL,SpeeF000 to Pay te do, www.gateway2000.com; voting trends who heads the Committee for the au, of the |
