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“Night Nurse” is more about the microcosm of this sleepy retirement community — where money and power still have influence, despite their stasis — than it is the outcome of Eleni and Douglas’ affair.

From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2026

"I think often people go: 'I don't have influence to create jobs for homeless and disabled people'. I promise you do. I promise you do, through the change of something like soap in a washroom."

From BBC ● Feb. 28, 2026

Some say Druckenmiller will have influence in other ways.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 2, 2026

Richard Posner and Frank Easterbrook, two judges appointed by Ronald Reagan, have influence numbers that dwarf those of Murphy and St. Eve.

From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2024

Yet, their gathering—a group assembled around a table, an opening prayer or song, questions for the dead, and answering spirits—would have influence far beyond nineteenth-century Rochester.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock




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