Or maybe, she thought as she stood in the kitchen, opening and closing the dumbwaiter door with one hand, the necessary act of sacrificing one phone for another could be read as a veiled enactment of the sort of ambivalence required for alternating between lovers in the first place.

NEWYORKER: Another Manhattan

Donal felt the draft, and saw Gerry closing the door behind him.

NEWYORKER: Bullfighting

It reveals that "combustible materials" had been stored in the stairwell and the self-closing mechanism on the fire door to the flat in which the young jockeys died was not working properly.

BBC: Malton fire death jockeys investigation continues

She would force a smile and depart, quietly closing the door behind her, as if I were not hers.

NEWYORKER: Naima

With such diverse sound effects and samples as frogs croaking, children playing, side walk preachers preaching, and a New York subway door closing, The Education of the Individual Soul is tied to both nature and to everyday urban life, giving it the qualities of a sort of ethereal and mystical modern-day fairytale.

NPR: East Forest: 'Pacific Coast Highway'

But despite the movement's passion and determination, the door to democracy in Egypt appears to be closing.

CNN: Analysis: Egypt's ailing democracy movement

If the losses and liquidation pick up steam, and the 20-day moving average is broken on a closing basis, it would open the door for addition losses throughout the week.

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"We must make it easier to keep critical workers who can keep America competitive and grow our economy, but we should not do so by closing the door on family-based immigrants, " she said at a hearing earlier this month.

WSJ: Crovitz: The Virtual March on Washington for Immigration

Just one last point - and I'm not sure, now, if I'm hearing belts and braces being securely fastened, or the sound of a stable door closing long after the horse has bolted but might there just be paperwork that all involved must update, sign, seal and deliver just in case either man is reinstated?

BBC: The 'dangling' Lib Dem Two: the latest