These days, he says, he just reports to the studio in Times Square at 9 p.m.

These days, he says, he just reports to the studio in Times Square at 9 p.m.

A stroke in 2004 profoundly changed Mr. Clark’s life, as well as his role on “Rockin’ Eve,” which is by far the country’s most popular televised countdown at the tail end of each year. He appears for a few segments around midnight while his protégé Ryan Seacrest runs the show.

But Mr. Clark and his countdown show remain synonymous with New Year’s Eve; this year, for its 40th anniversary, the show he created will take over nearly six hours of the ABC network, its most ever.





The two new hours, from 8 to 10 p.m. on Saturday, are billed as an anniversary party and will include a tribute to Mr. Clark, who turned 82 a month ago. “It’s our way of looking back on 40 years,” said Mark Shapiro, the chief executive of Dick Clark Productions, who added that he hoped the expansion would become permanent.

Asked if the on-air tribute were an indication that this might be Mr. Clark’s last year on “Rockin’ Eve,” Mr. Shapiro said, “That’s a great question, and the only one that knows that answer is Dick himself.”
Later, when asked if this year would indeed be his last, Mr. Clark answered in an e-mail, “I hope not.”
Such speculation has surrounded Mr. Clark ever since he had the stroke a few weeks before New Year’s in 2004.

STEPHEN DOUGHTY
No arguments about the most significant event of 2011. We can’t say the Arab Spring: as China’s most celebrated Arsenal fan Chou En Lai said of the French revolution, about 180 years after the event, it’s too early to tell.
The most moving event of the year was the death of cricketer Basil D’Oliveira, a man who did as much as Nelson Mandela to bring down apartheid. His life is a reminder that it is still possible that one decent, honest, able individual can, without PR spinners, corporate sponsors, political friends, celebrity agents, lawyers or ideology, move mountains.

JANICE ATKINSON SMALL
The near collapse of the euro which is the beginning of the end of failed euro project.  When elected democracies are taken over by unelected Brussels commissioners with the blessing of other elected European leaders such as the Merkozy twins, chaos and instability ensues.
The massive debts of the Eurozone countries, fuelled by huge unsustained borrowing in the ‘boom’ years which cannot ever be repaid, inertia in the financial markets and European banks over-exposed to debt, has resulted in stagnation which Germany cannot and will not bail out.
With Germany expecting everyone else to pay into the pot via the IMF, not to stabilise countries which it is designed to do, but to prop up a failed currency, it is doomed.
This slowly unravelling mess will last into 2012 but will finally be laid to rest with the rebirth of democracy.



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The last Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev also dramatically called on Putin to quit, just as he had done on December 25, 1991

Organisers said 120,000 people attended the extraordinary rally in central Moscow Saturday where protesters chanted slogans against Putin and called for the annulment of disputed December elections won by his party.
       Police put the numbers at 29,000 but AFP correspondents said the turnout was clearly bigger than the first rally two weeks ago which smashed the taboo in Russia against mass opposition protests.
       The last Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev also dramatically called on Putin to quit, just as he had done on December 25, 1991 when the USSR collapsed exactly two decades ago,
       “This is not an outburst which will die down. This is not about the protests but about the mood,” Yevgeny Gontmakher, head of the Centre for Social Policies at the Moscow-based Economics Institute, told AFP.
        “There is a danger of a revolution. Authorities are making concessions but are not keeping up with the development of the events.”
        Russia’s state television took the surprise decision to cover the rally hinting at an easing of a long-held taboo against direct criticism of Putin, who came to power 12 years ago and wants to stay at the helm until 2024.
        “Sharply negative appraisals of Vladimir Putin have been voiced several times,” said a report about the rally broadcast on the Channel One on Saturday night. 
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