"The votes are very close everywhere," he said.
Later that day at the station, a policewoman told Cristian in an episode that has since been posted online: "We had to block the road, we had to call out the bomb squad, we had to call up supervisors to come down, we had to close everywhere off because your vehicle was parked in a higher security hotspot in London with that written on the sides.
Convents and monasteries were closing everywhere, their land sold off and the buildings bulldozed.
When schools are closed and everywhere else is closed, where else is there for young people to go? "To be in a young person's shoes today is a very difficult place to be.
He developed close mentors everywhere he went: Two successful gay black men for whom he worked came to consider him a son, offering him help, their ear or money when he needed it.
They became very close, went everywhere and soon, the baby refused to sleep alone and only wanted to sleep on her mom's chest, to feel the coziness of a loving mother.
To announce closing night, seven years later, advertisements read: "Nothing runs forever, not even 'A Chorus Line.' " But closing night on Broadway is not closing night everywhere.
"We're just shrinking capacity, and as a result, parents are being closed out everywhere they turn," Ms. Holcomb said.
The government's priority at the moment is mainstreaming children - so specialist deaf schools are closing down everywhere.
When Mr Wang turned up, he was given a welcome befitting a senior minister: streets were closed, billboards everywhere sang Wanda's praises, and local officials paid their respects.Designer suits, luxury yachts, extravagant parties: Mr Wang risks coming across as too much the playboy in an increasingly Cromwellian China.
A recent BBC documentary series set on Sauchiehall Street portrayed Glasgow's busiest thoroughfare as a gauntlet of smashed glass and human misery, with scant acknowledgment that it's also one of Britain's most musically vibrant areas, densely packed with small venues of the sort that seem to be closing down everywhere else.
