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...Chinese side cannot but immediately halt bilateral human rights dialogue and exchanges,” Chinese Assistant Foreign Minister Shen Guofang said last month...
...humor wasn’t enough. The campaign dragged to an eventual halt in Wisconsin four weeks later. It seemed that after the promise of a new kind of politics, Dean would be relegated to the status of cautionary tale...
With a runner on first base, the Crusaders made one last attempt at a comeback. But the rally came to an abrupt halt after a called pitchout play caught the runner taking an aggressive lead at first, and the hopes of Holy Cross fell with one swipe of senior Sara Williamson’s glove...
...this is all nearly over, and months devoid of the curious comforts of college-time scheduling lie ahead. This need to make contact before departure is all the more acute on consideration of how the college year actually finishes. It does not grind to a sudden and well-defined halt, but instead peters out, as variable exam schedules drain dorms in a gradual trickle. It’s a case of now you see it, now you don’t, completely different from the coordinated communal closure of the high school year and endowing the rites of spring time...
...occasionally there are signs that Sonia may share some of the crowd's feelings. In four long, hot days of campaigning, she visibly relaxes only once?when she calls a sudden unscheduled halt in the middle of a dust-bowl plain and strides out to where she has spied a group of female nomads under a tent of sticks and black plastic. The women have only the faintest idea of who she is. Sonia cannot understand their dialect. And the photographers, trailing far behind, cannot hope to capture this briefest of off-guard moments. But away from the crowds...