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...Friday night was tough,” Buesser said. “Coach Stone tells us to think about it till midnight and then put it behind...
...economic downturn, Golden Hall, a luxury mall in the capital that opened in 2008, was packed on a recent postholiday weekend, and the shelves in many of its 131 stores were bare. And when a popular singer, Michalis Hatzigiannis, appeared on an Athens stage for one of his midnight shows, not a seat in the house was vacant, even at $125 a pop. Perhaps it's a final party before things get leaner. For the first time in decades, Greeks seem to have had an epiphany of their own and understand that they will have to start living within their...
...colonel in the field, Fonseka led a 1993 operation dubbed Midnight Express to relieve government troops holed up in a fort in the Tamil Tiger hotbed of Jaffna, rescuing several hundred soldiers and winning commendations for his bravery. Accompanying him on the mission was Gotabaya Rajapaksa, brother of the President, and currently Sri Lanka's iron-fisted - and allegedly corrupt - Secretary for Defense...
...halls is growing: first it was overcrowding in Adams, now it's late-night vacuuming in Cabot. This latest complaint lit up Cabot's House open list last week when one resident fired off a missive over the deplorable fact that workers vacuum its dining hall at or around midnight, a time when many students are trying to study...
...decades, residents of U.S. cities would synchronize their pocketwatches using a giant globe that would descend from a pole in a public space to mark the exact hour. Ochs conceived of an ornate "time ball" that would descend just before midnight to mark the exact end of the year. The first ball to drop - an illuminated 400-pound iron-and-wood orb - was lowered from a flagpole. Tradition took root and the ball has heralded a new beginning almost every year since - in 1942 and 1943, during World War II, the ball was temporarily put out of commission...