Christopher Hitchens

late author and journalist

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former contributing editor to Vanity Fair magazine and author of God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, he died on December 15, 2011

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Britain's new Prime Minister  Gordon Brown  has been portrayed as a big change from Tony Blair, especially on Iraq and the war on terror.

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