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Monday afternoon's signing ceremony (Beijing time)--the culmination of more than a decade of intermittent negotiations between the United States and China--comes after a week of intense, last-ditch efforts by Clinton envoys to ink a deal by the Nov. 30 WTO meeting in Seattle.
In many isolated regions, meanwhile, last-ditch defences in the form of round stone towers were built, a few of which are still inhabited today.
The retreat ended in 1938 with the Nationalist government dug in behind the gorges of the Yangzi River, in the last-ditch capital of Chongqing.
It is, for the most part, a novelization of the Menendez case, but the O.J. nonsense shadows it, and the whole incompetent O.J. prosecution team seems to have been flown in for a last-ditch battle with the forces of billable evil.
The Journal tops its "Worldwide" box with Clinton's dispatch of two negotiators to Beijing in a last-ditch effort to include China in the World Trade Organization before the next WTO meeting on Nov. 30.