Word: overnighters
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...sending his daughter Sanjana to after-school tutoring last summer, shortly before her third birthday. To his delight, he soon found she could not only count the 14 dots on her homework work sheet but also write 14 beside them. "I didn't think kids could just learn that overnight," he marvels...
...happiest memories is practicing card tricks all day at Merlin's. At 15, he had the maturity to realize that a career in comedy wasn't a matter of "I'm funny. Now I'll be funny in public." A disciplined apprenticeship was the prerequisite for overnight stardom...
Everyone remembers the Star Wars Kid. How could you not? His wild gesticulating with standard golfing implements transformed him into an Internet celebrity overnight and was no doubt a popular source of laughter when the video made its debut several years ago, even before the advent of YouTube. But does anyone remember his real name? Did anyone even know his real name? And did anyone ever discover how this event changed the life of the Star Wars Kid? Probably not. The Internet stripped the boy of his name, of his very identity, and the danger of losing one?...
...rally in the nearby town of Rawalpindi to celebrate her return to Islamabad, the nation's capital, but when President Pervez Musharraf declared emergency rule last Saturday, the rally morphed into an anti-emergency protest. By Friday morning, however, the protest was hardly able to get off the ground. Overnight, police blocked all private vehicles from entering Ralwalpindi, spread barbed wire across the streets of the protest venue and flooded the park grounds where she was to speak in order to prevent supporters from sitting on the ground. A few hundred protesters clashed with police at the barricades...
...anything to regain power, even if it means making a deal with a dictator. The lack of a popular turnout at today's protests, say some analysts, is an indication of public indifference. Not so, say party leaders, who claim that more than 5,000 workers were arrested overnight. Islamabad police say the number is half that - for the week...