Word: overnighter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Three years ago, the Afro-American Studies Department had one tenured professor and students decided to do something about it. After a series of meetings and a dramatic overnight sit-in in University Hall, they got the changes they wanted. Now it is 1993, and activists have changed their concerns. But despite many differences, in some ways it seems like...
...OVERNIGHT NEW DELHI BECAME A MILITARY FORtress. Even before they began converging on India's capital for a planned antigovernment rally, about 60,000 activists of the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party were whisked into detention. The party's Hindu militants who reached the sealed-off city were confronted by a security force of 60,000. Several flash points erupted as authorities sprayed tear gas at crowds and hauled off an additional 5,000 to sport stadiums. Through it all, the manicured lawns near the presidential palace -- planned rallying point of the militants -- remained pristinely empty...
...just yet for Leary. Right now, the 35-year-old comedian is an overnight sensation (the kind that takes more than a decade to happen). The catchphrases in his TV commercials for Nike and MTV ("I got two words for you . . ." and "I think you hear me knocking . . .") just may earn the dubious distinction of becoming the "You look mah-velous" of the '90s. His recent one-man off-Broadway show, No Cure for Cancer, has been turned into a paperback and a comedy-music album that are already in the stores, plus a cable special now playing on Showtime...
...systematic barriers until a period that is within the professional lives of many members of the faculty, it's not surprising that doesn't change overnight from being all white and all male," he says...
...course, there remains a perk gap -- the chasm between what government officials give up and the privileges that remain. Presidential assistants are entitled to diplomatic passports, which means they can obtain them nearly overnight. For entertainment, there are the three presidential boxes at Kennedy Center theaters, which aides often use. Among the choicest berths are vacation homes in the Grand Tetons and the Virgin Islands available at Motel 6 rates...