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...wasn't an overnight success. At 18, Orville Richard Burrell (his oft untamed mane earned him the nickname Shaggy) left Kingston, Jamaica, for Brooklyn, N.Y., to launch a singing career. When he couldn't make ends meet, he joined the Marines. A year later, he found himself in Iraq with an artillery battery weaving through minefields. "It was wild--the atmosphere was kind of like Three Kings," he says, referring to the 1999 movie. During the long stretches of downtime, he started writing songs and, when he was discharged two years later, decided to make another run at recording...
...Laura would come in with four new dresses she'd made overnight," said model Alexandra L. Fazio '01. "We had this sleeve floating about for a while, then one day, she'd transformed it into a dress...
...paradigm shift in Israeli politics. After all, just two weeks ago Ehud Barak was warning Israeli voters that electing Sharon would be a national catastrophe; on Tuesday Barak was locked in negotiations over how to join Sharon in government. The outgoing prime minister also signed off on the overnight assassination of a Palestinian activist in Gaza by missiles fired from an Israeli helicopter, as a reminder that the two parties take a common view of how Israel should deal with those its intelligence agencies conclude are engaged in terrorism...
When a Colombian as rich and powerful as President Andres Pastrana spends a night in the tiny town of Los Pozos as a guest of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), it's usually because he's been kidnapped. But while Pastrana chose to stay overnight of his own free will Thursday, he is indeed captive to a political dilemma few would wish on their worst enemies. The president began a second day of talks Friday with Manuel "Sureshot" Marulanda, the 72-year-old leader of the 17,000-strong Maoist guerrilla army that controls almost half...
...early days, and I refer to 1991, the only sports you could really get during the week was Monday Night Football and the Persian Gulf war. All that changed seemingly overnight. Suddenly, Major League Baseball and NBC conceived The Baseball Network and you could see national games on Wednesdays. Instead of just the NBA on NBC on Sundays, cozying up to Marv Albert (now a dangerous idea) and his take on the Spurs-Jazz, one could watch TNT and TBS and see four more games a week...