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What happened next is no laughing matter. Ibrahim may have made a mistake in suggesting that President Hosni Mubarak, marking his 20th year in power, might also fancy having a son as his successor. Soon after the article appeared last June, police paid Ibrahim a midnight visit and hauled him away for 42 days in detention without charge. Hinting he'd be booked for spying, the authorities accused him of illegally receiving and misusing funds, planning to bribe officials and tarnishing the reputation of Egypt. This week Ibrahim, 62, wraps up his defense in a six-month trial...
...with all the convenience of home, was just too sketchy and its employees too unpalatable for such a carefully controlled environment. If Yuppies need snacks or food late at night, they can just go to CVS, and if they need food really late, well, most theme parks close at midnight anyway, so what are they doing out so late? Park management also decided that too many Yuppie bars would ruin the tip the nostalgia/comfort balance too much in favor of Nerdistans like Waltham, so it decided to get rid of Grafton Street and expand the bank...
...real college students. Since Yuppie FantasyLand thinks of us as just extras in some new production of The Truman Show, our opinions don’t count. Our need for a 24-hour diner doesn’t matter. When we want to rent a movie at midnight on a Wednesday, that doesn’t matter either. Even our nightlife doesn’t matter, or else management wouldn’t have closed two bars in the last year and crippled the Grille to boot...
Yard residents will have to find a new place to satisfy their midnight munchies when Store24 closes its doors for the last time...
...Midnight in London. A long, shivering line of twentysomethings snakes outside a club in the West End. And most of them hold, as if an extension of their right hand, a mobile phone. Some are chatting with pals. Look closely, though, and you will see that many others are text messaging their friends, checking up on who's making out with whom, which clubs are hot tonight; constantly punching the numeric keypad as if to prove that the opposable thumb is what distinguishes humans from lesser primates...