Word: midnighters
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...King finally capitulated to relentless pressure from street protests and agreed to meet a key demand of his nation's pro-democracy movement - thus offering hope for a resolution to the nineteen-day-old political crisis that has ravaged Nepal. Appearing on national TV half an hour before midnight, King Gyanendra offered to reinstate Nepal's parliament, which was dissolved in 2002 - thus meeting an important demand of the pro-democracy movement not met by his first offer to the political parties heading the movement, which was rejected. The King's offer was met with loud cheers and firecrackers from...
...very sick. "He was flailing and arching his knees to his chest. So we rushed to the emergency room of the Children's Hospital." Their son was seen by a brand-new surgical resident, who diagnosed an intestinal obstruction. "This resident said to my wife--this is now midnight--'Well, in my experience, this can wait until morning.'" Since his experience at that point in his residency amounted to roughly three days on the job, the Groopmans pulled rank. They called someone who called someone who happened to be home on the holiday, and they wound up with a senior...
...When filling out your matriculation card, ask yourself, “Does this school have a glacier?” If not, you are filling out the wrong card. But there is so much right here on campus as well. Where else do the eateries remain unclosed until midnight? Where else can you relieve yourself by quite literally “going to the John?” (Now you know why the toe is shiny.) Where else, fair prefrosh, do the dining halls serve 73 varieties of chicken each week? (We recommend the chicken parm). There is no other...
...seven-party alliance will meet Saturday to formulate a response to the King's announcement. But in an ominous sign that the turmoil is likely to continue, protests continued in parts of the country even after Gyanendra's speech; curfew in the capital, Kathmandu, was extended to midnight to forestall any violence...
...SATURDAY Mammoth postering efforts and that weird playhouse outside the Science Center were unable to draw a crowd to Habitat for Humanity’s Housed party in Eliot. In another d-hall, Hungama and its accompanying South Asian music enticed a sizeable number of dancers until well past midnight! Mini-skirt-clad girls swapped Uggs for thongs (flip-flops, you pervert!) and wandered between parties at the A.D. and Delphic. Jon Carpenter ’07’s birthday in Leverett might as well have been dubbed “Dins Gone Wild...