Word: overnighting
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...them and focus on healing. "Just because you change the paint on the walls doesn't take away the historical problems that have been happening here," says Priebe-Diaz, who wants to give the new management strategies to encourage interracial dialogue. "Will it be easy? No. Will it happen overnight? No," she says. "But there is always hope...
...concert bandshell, Beirut has great acoustics. So yesterday's roiling street battles in the Lebanese capitol echoed through the city with a drumbeat of rocket explosions and a chorus of machine gun fire that sounded like the symphonic overture to civil war. When an early summer thunderstorm began overnight, it seemed as if the heavens themselves were taking up the ominous theme...
...prospects until the 1980s. Even then, after a period of economic liberalization under reformist Prime Minister Turgut Ozal (a pal of Margaret Thatcher's), the old habits died hard. In 2001, Turkey suffered a full-blown financial crisis in which the Turkish currency lost nearly 50% of its value overnight...
Japan is in mourning over the 16-year resident and superstar of Tokyo's Ueno Zoo. Ling Ling died overnight of heart failure and kidney malfunction. His portrait now sits inside his cage, next to bouquets and his favorite bamboo shoots. Some visitors wept; others prayed and wrote notes to his memory. In 1992, Ling Ling was part of a bilateral trade agreement of sorts: the Chinese gave Tokyo a giant black-and-white panda - native to its southwest - in exchange for a panda the Japanese had bred in captivity. China has since stopped giving pandas away as part...
...success of the duo has not been an overnight phenomenon. Having been a prominent fixture of the doubles lineup for the past two seasons, Kumar and Ermakov have gained All-Ivy Doubles honors and qualified for the NCAA Tournament, in addition to reaching No. 15 in the national rankings. But with patchy records over the past two years, consistency has eluded them—until...