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Shusterman, who currently works as co-founder of the Web site jobnob. He still had hope in a interview that the first decade of the 21st century would get a definitive name by the time it ended, but now admits he still sees no consensus. The Secrets of Their Success ," don't believe a consensus name would emerge, arguing that some things just defy being named. That's because it doesn't fit the pattern of twenties through nineties. So there won't be a numerical name for the next decade either. It will be such a relief to get to the twenties!

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We'll just have to continue living under the burden of paraphrase. Batchelor, the author of "The s," who will soon be teaching at Kent State University in Ohio, worries the lack of a common way to refer to the decade has significance -- and might even doom it to oblivion. But he doesn't think it was "the Bush decade ," because he believes history will judge Bush as a "a losing president," and "I don't think people want to put a loser label on it.

Though he believes individual events will be remembered, our nameless decade may fall through the cracks. You have the assembly line -- jeez, the things that happened. But ask people to define the s period before World War I, and most draw a blank, he says. But for a time, they're overlooked. Add to that the here-today-gone-tomorrow aspect of the modern news cycle, and Batchelor is more skeptical that people of tomorrow will think about today.

Even so, there may be some hope for our decade as history takes further twists and turns. But a new decade dawns in less than a month. Some argue it takes time and distance to understand what mattered most. Sigl admits he and other bloggers wouldn't have been heard a decade ago. Others aren't so sure. The [Fill-in-the-Blank] Decade Though technology is a popular choice for defining the decade now, not everyone seems certain it will stay that way.

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The revival of a classic made essential teatime viewing for a new generation. The first huge hit British musical since Phantom of the Opera goes on to conquer Broadway and sweep the board at the Tony awards. Beethoven Experience dominates the airwaves: Radio 3 broadcasts every note of Beethoven, and the symphony downloads break all classical records. Twenty years after Live Aid, the global musical charity event returned bigger, though not necessarily better. The feelgood factor was dissipated by a sense of confusion about what was achieved. Two years later, Live Earth was so botched it felt like the whole format had become outdated and ineffective.

Hurricane Katrina destroys New Orleans: The release of the interactive game begins a process that will end with the Beatles as computer avatars. Harold Pinter wins Nobel Prize for literature: The most expensive wildlife documentary ever commissioned by the BBC makes its debut, packed with extraordinary high-definition scenes from nature never before seen on television.

Elephant-hunting lions, cannibal chimps and a bloody encounter between a monkey and a tiger — all vie for attention with the inimitable tones of David Attenborough.

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RSC Complete Works festival: The show that occupied the central point in British pop music for four decades goes out with a whimper, killed off by the BBC because of lack of interest. Atheist polemic sets off heated debate about God, the universe and everything. A new way to read books — on an eye-friendly hand-held screen. Greatest of the site-specific productions that were such an adventurous feature of the decade.

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For two decades we saw countless blockbusters at the Royal Academy. This survey of portraiture in the age of enlightenment was one of the most ambitious — but would be one of the last. Throughout the decade the cost of such shows mounted, the danger to the objects increased and sponsorship became harder to find. A year later the markets crashed, taking with them the culture of the blockbuster. Paul McCartney signs record deal with Starbucks: Anyone can be a record company now — even a coffee shop chain.

This dazzling Stalinist take on Shakespeare makes Goold a director to watch. Darcey Bussell retires from ballet: At the height of her powers, a great British ballerina gracefully bows out. JK Rowling sends children and adults into a frenzy of speed-reading. The public face of a nationwide campaign to rescue Venezuelan street kids through music education, this orchestra electrifies audiences across the world. Gustavo Dudamel, its conductor, becomes a superstar. Prince takes up residence at the O2 Arena in London: Singing, playing and gyrating through a constantly shifting set of songs, the jazz-soul-funk-rock-machine treated , ticket holders to some of the greatest shows on earth.

He also cannily demonstrated the new music-business priorities by giving away his album Earth Songs with the Mail on Sunday. The world mourns the Italian tenor who had become the popular face of opera.

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