The first president of ARIN was Kim Hubbard, from 1997 until 2000.

In September 2000 the Constitutional Court rejected an argument by former president Arias that a 1969 constitutional amendment banning presidential reelection be rescinded.

Arias thus remained barred from a second term as president ; however, in April 2003 – by which time two of the four judges who had voted against the change in 2000 had been replaced – the Court reconsidered the issue and, with the only dissenters being the two anti-reelection judges remaining from 2000, declared the 1969 amendment null and thus opened the way to reelection for former presidents – which in practice meant Arias.

Following a constitutional referendum of July 2000, the president of the CNSP decided to run for president, and indeed declared himself president after the elections of 22 October 2000.

Finally, however, after popular unrest Laurent Gbagbo became president and was sworn in on 26 October 2000.

When Azali took power he also pledged to step down in April 2000 and relinquish control to a democratically elected president — a pledge with mixed results.

Mark Anderson, president of Strategic News Service, a research firm based in Friday Harbor, Wash. was quoted as saying The kind of goals he had sounded good to shareholders -- like being a $ 50 billion company by the year 2000, or to beat I. B. M.

Before the constitutional rewrite, which was completed in 2000, the president enjoyed more power.

At the November 2000 elections, boycotted by the opposition, Aristide was again elected president, with more than 90 % of the vote, on a turnout of around 50 % according to international observers.

His last day as president of Millsaps College was June 30, 2000.

Bakili Muluzi was president from 21 May 1994 to May 2004, having won reelection in 2000 with 51. 4 % of the vote to leading challenger Gwandaguluwe Chakuamba's 44. 3 % for the MCP-AFORD party.

It was in 1997, that PRI lost its absolute majority at the Congress of the Union, and in 2000 the first non-PRI president was elected since 1929.

In the 1997 mid-term elections, no party held majority in the Chamber of Deputies, and in 2000 the first opposition party president was sworn in office since 1929.

* 2000 – Vladimir Putin is inaugurated as president of Russia.

After serving almost 20 years of a life sentence in prison in Italy, Ağca was pardoned by the then Italian president Carlo Azeglio Ciampi in June 2000 and deported to Turkey.

In April 2000, René Harris, former chairman of the Nauru Phosphate Corporation, became president as he briefly assembled support in parliament.

* 2000 – Alberto Fujimori is removed from office as president of Peru.

* 2000 – Laurent Gbagbo takes over as president of Côte d ' Ivoire following a popular uprising against President Robert Guéï.

* 2000 – Yugoslav president Slobodan Milošević resigns.

Kenneth Lee Pike ( June 9, 1912 – December 31, 2000 ) was an American linguist and anthropologist.

Richard's grandson, Adam Petty, was killed in an accident at New Hampshire International Speedway on May 12, 2000, five weeks after the death of Lee.

* Fellman, Michael ( 2000 ), The Making of Robert E. Lee.

* Rhea, Gordon C. To the North Anna River: Grant and Lee, May 13 – 25, 1864, Louisiana State University Press, 2000, ISBN 0-8071-2535-0.

The book has been adapted for film and television a number of times, including a 1981 serial for TV directed by Rodney Bennett ; a 1995 movie adapted by Emma Thompson and directed by Ang Lee ; a version in Tamil called Kandukondain Kandukondain, released in 2000 ; and a 2008 TV series on BBC adapted by Andrew Davies and directed by John Alexander.

* Defining New Yorker Humor by Judith Yaross Lee ( 2000 )

Palaeoethnobotanists have found evidence of the cultivation of millet in the Korean Peninsula dating to the Middle Jeulmun pottery period ( c. 3500 – 2000 BC ) ( Crawford 1992 ; Crawford and Lee 2003 ).

In 2000, Eastwood directed and starred in Space Cowboys alongside Tommy Lee Jones, Donald Sutherland, and James Garner.

In 2000, Shepherd's bestselling autobiography was published, titled Cybill Disobedience: How I Survived Beauty Pageants, Elvis, Sex, Bruce Willis, Lies, Marriage, Motherhood, Hollywood, and the Irrepressible Urge to Say What I Think, written in collaboration with Aimee Lee Ball.

After the presidential elections of 2000, which brought the independence-leaning Democratic Progressive Party's candidate Chen Shui-bian to power, the Kuomintang, faced with defections to the People First Party, expelled Lee Teng-hui and his supporters and reoriented the party back towards reunification.

Since the 2000 presidential election, Li Ao has bitterly spoken out against pro-independence Nobel laureate Yuan T. Lee, who publicly supported Chen Shui-bian.

In her 2000 book Roanoke: Solving the Mystery of the Lost Colony, historian Lee Miller postulated that some of the Lost Colony survivors sought shelter with the Chowanoke, that was attacked by another tribe, identified by the Jamestown Colony as the " Mandoag " ( an Algonquian name commonly given to enemy nations ).

Since July 2000, the President and Superintendent General of the Apostolic Faith Church has been Darrel D. Lee, who also pastors the headquarters church.

As of the 2000 Census, 16. 31 % of Ridgefield's residents identified themselves as being of Korean ancestry, which was the sixth highest in the United States and fourth highest of any municipality in New Jersey — behind Palisades Park ( 36. 38 %), Leonia ( 17. 24 %) and Fort Lee ( 17. 18 %) — for all places with 1, 000 or more residents identifying their ancestry.

In 2000, the band worked with David Lee Roth, reported by Slawterhouse, at 5150, writing new music before falling out again.

The airport opened in 2000, replacing the Sanford Lee County Brick Field, and provides both recreational and corporate services.

The Pan-Green Coalition formed in the aftermath of the 2000 ROC Presidential election, after which Lee Teng-hui was expelled from the Kuomintang and created his own party, the Taiwan Solidarity Union, which maintains a pro-independence platform.

During the 2000 presidential election, Lee Teng-hui arranged for Lien Chan to be nominated as Kuomintang candidate for president rather than the more popular James Soong, who bolted from the party and formed his own People First Party after both he and Lien were defeated by Chen Shui-bian in the presidential elections.

In the final months leading to the 2000 elections, the KMT, then under Lee Teng-hui's leadership, sued Soong for theft, alleging that as party Secretary-General, he stole millions of Taiwan dollars in cash intended for the family of the late President Chiang Ching-kuo and hid the money in the Chunghsing Bills Finance Company.

As of the 2000 census, 3. 72 % of Demarest's residents identified themselves as being of Japanese ancestry, which was the second highest of any municipality in New Jersey — behind Fort Lee ( 6. 09 %) — for all places with 1, 000 or more residents identifying their ancestry.

*** Lee Teng-hui 李登辉 ( 1923 -; ancestral Yongding, Fujian ; born in Sanzhi, New Taipei, Taiwan ), President of the Republic of China, 1988 – 2000 ; First freely elected president in Chinese history

* Marie Madeleine Lee nee Ah Chuen 朱志筠 ( 1927 -; Meixian, Guangdong ; born in Mauritius ), Mauritius ' first ambassador to China, 1999 – 2000

In the 2000 census, 1, 196 of the town's 1, 932 residents ( 61. 9 %) lived in Monroe County and 736 ( 38. 1 %) in Lee County.

In her 2000 book Roanoke: Solving the Mystery of the Lost Colony, historian Lee Miller surmised that some of the Lost Colony survivors sought shelter with a neighboring Indian tribe, the Chowanoc, that was attacked by another tribe, identified by the Jamestown Colony as the " Mandoag ", who may have been either Tuscarora or Eno, also known as the Wainoke.