After years of efforts to push the LEP performance to, and indeed beyond, the
limits of what had been believed possible, hints of signal of a Higgs boson at
115GeV/c2 appeared in June 2000, were confirmed in September, and confirmed
again in November. Spending an additional six-month period with LEP would have
given the unambiguous opportunity of a fundamental discovery. Instead, this
possibilty was handed over to the Tevatron, for which at least si more years
will be needed to confirm the existence of a Higgs boson around 115GeV/c2. The
upgrades performed at LEP and needed at the Tevatron, together with the physics
outcomes, are briefly mentioned in turn.Comment: 20 pages, 9 figures, Physics in Collisions, June 2001, Seou
