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Suzanne has followed her lead, has also bequeathed her body to the Faculté de Médecine.
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Yiyun Li, Harper's Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024
In The Friend, Watts plays a novelist and creative writing teacher whose solitary life is upended after the unexpected death of a friend (Bill Murray), who bequeaths his Great Dane to her, per the NYFF's official synopsis.
—Emma Aerin Becker, People.com, 4 Oct. 2024
Although the one-party system Stalin bequeathed to Beijing has remained essentially unchanged since 1921, the lives described in these three books have nonetheless helped Chinese politics swing between opposing poles ever since the end of the old imperial system.
—Orville Schell, Foreign Affairs, 22 June 2021
Eisenhower unified the services still further, brought down defense budgets, and improved the institutions that Truman had bequeathed him.
—Martin E. Dempsey, Foreign Affairs, 20 June 2013
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Yiyun Li, Harper's Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024
In The Friend, Watts plays a novelist and creative writing teacher whose solitary life is upended after the unexpected death of a friend (Bill Murray), who bequeaths his Great Dane to her, per the NYFF's official synopsis.
—Emma Aerin Becker, People.com, 4 Oct. 2024
Although the one-party system Stalin bequeathed to Beijing has remained essentially unchanged since 1921, the lives described in these three books have nonetheless helped Chinese politics swing between opposing poles ever since the end of the old imperial system.
—Orville Schell, Foreign Affairs, 22 June 2021
Eisenhower unified the services still further, brought down defense budgets, and improved the institutions that Truman had bequeathed him.
—Martin E. Dempsey, Foreign Affairs, 20 June 2013
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