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This is one explanation that seems plausible, but I don’t think it accounts for another, more intriguing factor at work when students put off their work until the last minute, force themselves to churn out mini-theses overnight and complete the finished product with less than an hour to spare: confidence. It takes remarkable amounts of faith and certainty in oneself to leave a mere twenty-four hours to deconstruct Kantian metaphysics or to absorb the entire set of mechanisms for an orgo exam. For many of us at this school, myself included, the thought of waiting...
...from them," says a U.S. official. A Western diplomat in Islamabad concurs, "There's grudging compliance. The ISI is saluting Musharraf and obeying him." This required a 180 turn for Pakistani spooks. Former friends such as the Taliban and homegrown jihad outfits became the new enemies. "Overnight, our strategic assets," as one top Islamabad official puts it, "had become liabilities...
...Nevertheless, when the interrogators' report reached official Washington overnight Wednesday it prompted a series of White House meetings and secure teleconferences among top Bush appointees, including Attorney General John Ashcroft, Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, CIA director George Tenet and homeland security director Tom Ridge, as well as senior career officials at the Pentagon, FBI and CIA. (FBI director Bob Mueller was in San Francisco; executive assistant director Dale Watson and counter-terrorism division chief Pat D'Amuro represented the FBI at the White House sessions...
...could create competition because the administration can’t create three new departments overnight,” says Allana N. Jackson ’03, treasurer of the Association of Black Harvard Women...
...Miramax is like the overnight sensation that for a little while bought into their press and moved away from the things that helped define them," says Kevin Smith, whose career as a cult filmmaker began after Miramax released his $27,000 indie Clerks in 1994. "They overextended and overreached, and now it seems like they're reining it all back in... This is the company that made Pulp Fiction, that put out The Piano and The Crying Game--why on earth would they make something like Kate & Leopold or She's All That...