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</html><description>beingblog: Advice from Christopher Hitchens by Trent Gilliss, senior editor While Christopher Hitchens&#x2019; rhetoric can be bombastic and pompous at times, I appreciate the challenging and empowering ideas of this big thinker. His Vanity Fair article addressing his battle with cancer is quite moving, if not only for its firm grounding and keen sense of ...</description><thumbnail_url>https://theresearchpapers.org/archive/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/tumblr_li690ajkjT1qfiwblo1_400-150x150.jpg</thumbnail_url></oembed>
