" It is a good sign and it is very quick for a president to receive the Nobel Prize even though he didn't finish a whole year in his term,"

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Actually, his death came rather suddenly and he was working on a requiem that someone had commissioned from him under rather mysterious circumstances and he began to think of it as his own requiem, and indeed, he didn't actually finish it.

其实,他的死来的比较突然,那时他正在谱写,由一个神秘人物委托的《安魂曲》,而且他开始把它当成了自己的安魂曲,而事实是,他其实并没有完成这部作品

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What I'm wondering is, does he consider the completion -- and of course the Senate Democrats are one of the main reasons health care didn't get done, because they didn't finish it in a year -- but does the President consider the completion of the health care legislation to be a measurement of whether Democrats can lead or not?

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing by Deputy Press Secretary Bill Burton

The day before I flew down, I started to read up on Harry's Wikipedia page, but was called into a meeting and didn't finish it.

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And one of the criticisms that's been raised is maybe he didn't crack the whip early enough or didn't really kind of heave it over the finish line himself earlier.

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing by Deputy Press Secretary Bill Burton