Word: midnighters
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...order came in at midnight. The soldiers were at their base in Beit Lid, at the edge of the West Bank in northern Israel, preparing to launch an assault against wanted Palestinian militants. As the elite unit reviewed its plans, Israeli intelligence officials phoned the commanders with an updated mission. A suspected terrorist had been tracked to a residential building in Nablus, the densely populated Palestinian city known to Israelis as the West Bank's capital of terror. In the past year Israeli forces claim to have caught or killed 120 Palestinians with plans to head from Nablus to Israel...
...three men hailing a taxi late last Wednesday near Sulaimaniyah, a city in northern Iraq close to the Iranian border, didn't look like locals. They wore long, dark beards, for one thing and, though it was past midnight, didn't know where they were going. They first told the driver to take them into the city, then changed their minds and asked to be driven to a secluded suburb. Then they pulled guns on the driver and forced him out. "Do not look back," one of the strangers said, before speeding off. In any other part of the world...
...Harry A. Byrne Jr. faces up to 10 years in prison and a maximum fine of $250,000 for violating the civil rights of Garett D. Trombly ’03 after arresting the then-Cabot House resident near the Boston College (BC) campus shortly after midnight on Sept...
...biggest rooms, so it's important that when they come here, they're among friends," says the man Johnny Depp calls Papa. So when Dustin Hoffman comes through town and shows up at the Costes, Coco puts on Harry Nilsson's Everybody's Talkin' (the theme to Hoffman's Midnight Cowboy), sneaks up behind Hoffman and whispers breathily, "Zees eez for yoo." It's their running joke. That's not to say there haven't been setbacks. In the late 1990s, the Costes bought a mansion in the Marais district that they were planning to turn into a five-star...
...needed. The state faces a $675 million debt and not much left in services to cut. Alabama has an education system that ranks 49th in the country, prisons designed for 12,000 inmates that now have 27,000 crammed in them, and so few state troopers that after midnight only a half dozen patrol 67,500 miles of road. The state?s regressive tax system, whose burden now falls heaviest on low-income earners, is ?immoral,? he says. ?And taking care of the poor is the right thing...