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Appeared in the March 5, 2026, print edition as 'Coach Who Led Notre Dame To National Title Dies at 89'.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 4, 2026
In February 2017, for the first time in its long history, the Washington Post adopted an official slogan: “Democracy Dies in Darkness.”
From Slate ● Mar. 1, 2025
But it’s interesting that he references a lot of music that he had written, especially the Dies Irae and a theme from the “All-Night Vigil.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 31, 2024
Yeoh burst into Hollywood in the 1997 James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies, playing a Chinese femme fatale opposite Pierce Brosnan's 007.
From BBC ● Mar. 13, 2023
Samuel Beckett spliced his way merrily through such novels as MoIIoy and Malone Dies, thumbing his nose at the semicolon all the way: “There I am then, he leaves me, he’s in a hurry.”
From "Eats, Shoots & Leaves" by Author
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