Certainly few residents mind that the December handover will also close the book on European colonial authority in Asia.
Barack Obama will close the book on the old politics of race and gender and group against group and straight against gay.
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We close the book on August and get started with September as we barrel down on the holiday season when the real blockbusters start to hit the streets.
"With Barack Obama we will close the book on the old politics of race against race, gender against gender, ethnic group against ethnic group, and straight against gay, " Kennedy said.
Whatever the real cause, Pol Pot's death marks the end of one chapter in Cambodia's convoluted modern history, even if it does not close the book on the Khmer Rouge.
An ineffective display at Newlands might well close the book on Williams' Lions career, having toured with the 2005 side to New Zealand and played in the 48-18 second Test loss.
Killing Osama bin Laden begins to close the book on a horrible chapter in American history that began 10 years ago, but these three questions are the ones that figure to dominate the next 10 years.
As we close the book on this incredible era, we look forward to another with a renewed certainty that the next couple of generations of Red Sox fans will also be enjoying baseball at the ever magical Fenway Park.
There are still almost 70 years, close on half the book, to go.
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During his successful 2008 run, Mr. Obama told his campaign staff he wasn't sold on the slogan "Change We Can Believe In, " according to a book written by close aide David Plouffe.
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