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When is the last time you didn't work on New Year's Eve? I think it was 2003. I was out of the country and miserable. I was in St. Barts. At midnight Puff Daddy was in all white standing on a table with a bottle of champagne counting down and I was going, "No, I'm not supposed to be here...
...first such call came from a friend on Wednesday, close to midnight, just after I had stopped surfing Russian TV newscasts, all full of proud reports that TIME had named Russian President Vladimir Putin its Person of the Year...
...benefits of the grille are that it’s really close by,” Collins said. Other students were less enthusiastic about the reopening. Shayan Rajani ’09 used to visit the grille frequently, but he said that high prices left him going elsewhere for midnight meals. He said the grille seemed to be in fine condition last year. “It never occurred to me that it needed renovations,” Rajani said. The grille will be open 10:30 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. from Sunday to Wednesday...
...delayed its announcement while Chvez waited for the margin to drop below 1%, at which point he'd seek a recount (as Al Gore did in Florida in 2000, he said later). But the margin barely budged, and the opposition started seething in the streets, fearing fraud. Around midnight, Chvez's ex-defense minister, Raul Baduel, who opposed the reforms, warned that Chvez was flirting with popular unrest. By 1 a.m., says a government insider, Vice President Jorge Rodriguez - a respected former CNE director who had guided the transparent presidential recall referendum that Chvez defeated...
...after midnight in Jakarta and, below a highway overpass, a party is just getting started. Students and the unemployed are listening to well-worn cassette tapes, swigging from bottles filled with a cocktail of beer and local wine and loitering in front of Movement Records - a punk-music shop that has become a nexus for local youths. It is also home to Onie, one of Jakarta's self-proclaimed original street punks, who both works and sleeps on the premises. "It is very quiet at night," Onie says. "The shops are closed, so society is O.K. with us being here...