Word: overnighting
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...took up the cause when he graduated. Ted Lee, a year younger and then enrolled in a creative writing program, was also ready to start a business. Seemingly overnight, the first of many successful Lee brothers’ collaborations was born...
...Nesson wasn’t breaking any glass, and he wasn’t stealing any records either. In fact, the Weld professor of law was probably sitting in his quiet Griswold Hall office when the revolution broke out. Almost overnight, a program called Napster turned an obscure legal interest of his into the focus of a heated national debate. Napster’s debut didn’t just put free music into your playlist—it undermined all traditional notions of property. The battle that ensued is not just a fight between hip listeners and entertainment executives...
...there is also little doubt that the travel schedule that ECAC teams endure, weekend to weekend, far surpasses the rigors found in Hockey East, where the close proximity of schools and mid-week games make for fewer missed classes and overnight stays...
...stopped to wonder who was taking a smoke break outside the church basement near midnight. From November to April, the country’s only student-run homeless shelter welcomes guests in from the cold to occupy a limited number of beds. I’m joining the overnight volunteers, who arrive at 11 p.m. and take turns sleeping ’til it’s time to make breakfast...
...guest wakes up and groggily asks for a raisin scone. We go into the kitchen to find Mary Ellen Player ’04 asleep facedown on this month’s InStyle magazine. She wakes up. “My mom’s still skeptical about the overnight shift,” she says. “She keeps going, ‘are you safe?’ And I’m like, Yes, mom. This has been all about learning that people who don’t have homes aren’t necessarily dangerous...