EMM News Explorer: Christopher Hitchens

[-told]: To say one had no regrets would be abnormally unreflective, I think,

csmonitor 19-DEC-11

[answered:]: Just to stay within the letter

asiatimes 19-DEC-11

[-explained that]: Hitch-22

telegraph 16-DEC-11

[-was noted]: While my so far uncancerous throat, let me rush to assure my Christian correspondent above, is not at all the only organ with which I have blasphemed.

news 16-DEC-11

[ wrote]: My chief consolation in this year of living dyingly has been the presence of friends,

cnn 16-DEC-11

[-accused]: Hell’s Angel

dawn 16-DEC-11

[wrote:]: What they [the 9/11 attackers] abominate about

bbc 16-DEC-11

[-wrote]: I am programmed by the practice of a lifetime to take a contrary position,

irishsun 16-DEC-11

[wrote:]: If we ever ceased to swallow our pride, so I am incessantly told in Washington, then the Pakistani oligarchy might behave even more abysmally than it already does, and the situation deteriorate even further. This stale and superficial argument ignores the awful historical fact that, each time the Pakistani leadership did get worse, or behave worse, it was handsomely rewarded by the United States.

timesofindia 16-DEC-11

[-said that]: legal alien

ibtimes 16-DEC-11

[-accused]: Hell's Angel

france24 16-DEC-11

[-wrote]: Those who read him felt they knew him, and those who knew him were profoundly fortunate souls.

bbc 16-DEC-11

[-wrote]: We have known for a long time that Prince Charles’ empty sails are so rigged as to be swelled by any passing waft or breeze of crankiness and cant,

japantoday 16-DEC-11

[-replied]: The vengeful deity has a sadly depleted arsenal if all he can think of is exactly the cancer that my age and former ‘lifestyle’ would suggest that I got,

news 16-DEC-11

[-recalled]: When I was very young I lived in a remote village on the edge of an English moorland,

csmonitor 16-DEC-11

[-said]: January 2012,

reuters 16-DEC-11

[-wrote]: Trial of the Will,

reuters 16-DEC-11

[-said]: Saddam was an enemy of the civilized world and he should have been taken out a long time before,

news 16-DEC-11

[-said]: I’m a member of a cancer elite. I rather look down on people with lesser cancers,

france24 16-DEC-11

[-told]: This is an excellent thing and proof of the glory of God, because he could have made vegetation orange or red, something that would clash with our eyes, whereas green is the most restful color for our eyes!

npr 16-DEC-11

[ says]: I think deep down he understood that this was the most crucial question,

npr 16-DEC-11

[-wrote]: We have known for a long time that Prince Charles' empty sails are so rigged as to be swelled by any passing waft or breeze of crankiness and cant,

newschannel5 16-DEC-11

[commented that:]: we have the same job we always had: to say as thinking people and as humans that there are no final solutions, there is no absolute truth, there is no supreme leader, there is no totalitarian solution that says that if you will just give up your freedom of inquiry, if you will just give up, if you will simply abandon your critical faculties, a world of idiotic bliss can be yours.

rferl 16-DEC-11

[-said]: I was born in 1949, so I was almost the perfect age to be at university in 1968 and to have become very outraged by a number of things -- principally the Vietnam war, but not alone that -- and to be very discontented, as many people were for different reasons, with the boring, postwar, partly social-democratic, partly conservative consensus,

rferl 16-DEC-11

[noted:]: When he says that his aim is

independent 06-NOV-11

[ wrote]: The rich world has a poor conscience,

latimes 18-SEP-11

[-wrote]: Mark Steyn's book is essentially a challenge to the bien-pensants among us: an insistence that we recognize an extraordinary threat and thus the possible need for extraordinary responses,

ibtimes 18-AUG-11

[-concludes]: We have been the enablers of every stage of that wretched state’s counter-evolution, to the point where it is a serious regional menace and an undisguised ally of our worst enemy, as well as the sworn enemy of some of our best allies. How could it be ‘worse’ if we shifted our alliance and instead embraced India, our only rival in scale as a multi-ethnic and multi-religious democracy, and a nation that contains nearly as many Muslims as Pakistan? How could it be ‘worse’ if we listened to the brave

watchingamerica 14-JUN-11

[-writes that]: In recent years these theocratic tendencies have intensified with appalling speed, to the point where the state contains not one but two secret statelets within itself. ...

watchingamerica 14-JUN-11

[-wrote]: Can anyone imagine how the Arab spring would have played out if a keystone Arab state, oil-rich and heavily armed with a track record of intervention in its neighbors’ affairs and a history of all-out mass-repression against its own civilians, were still the private property of a sadistic crime family?

IHT 15-APR-11

[-said]: It is a rather wonderful relationship,

upi 26-MAR-11

[-said]: I'm in no position to deny it, but I'm wondering if you had...I'd do better if you said where you thought that was,

CBSnews 07-MAR-11

[-said]: It was about celebrity culture,

CBSnews 07-MAR-11

[-said]: I was very afraid it would stop me writing. And I was really petrified with fear about that because I thought that would, among other things, diminish my will to live because being a writer's what I am rather than what I do,

CBSnews 07-MAR-11

[told:]: 60 Minutes

CBSnews 07-MAR-11

[-told]: I'm a member of a cancer elite. I rather look down on people with lesser cancers,

CBSnews 07-MAR-11

[-told]: Lying, thieving Albanian dwarf,

CBSnews 07-MAR-11

[-wrote]: - the perfect description of Prince Charles's first wife.

CBSnews 07-MAR-11

[-acknowledged]: Well, there's a horrible joke about a landmine, yes,

CBSnews 07-MAR-11

[ wrote]: This is not a detail but a major desecration of the historical record—now apparently gliding unopposed toward a baptism by Oscar,

japantoday 02-FEB-11

[ wrote]: This is not a detail but a major desecration of the historical record — now apparently gliding unopposed toward a baptism by Oscar,

dailytimesPK 27-JAN-11

[concludes:]: Next time you are in a Starbucks or its equivalent and want some tea, don't be afraid to decline that hasty cup of hot water with added bag. It's not what you asked for.

telegraph 03-JAN-11

[admits that:]: family feuds have lasted generations

telegraph 03-JAN-11

[-concludes]: It is already virtually impossible in the United States, unless you undertake the job yourself, to get a cup or pot of tea that tastes remotely as it ought to. It's quite common to be served a cup or a pot of water, well off the boil, with the tea bags lying on an adjacent cold plate. Then comes the ridiculous business of pouring the tepid water, dunking the bag until some change in color occurs, and eventually finding some way of disposing of the resulting and dispiriting tampon surrogate. The drink itself

telegraph 03-JAN-11

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