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Christopher Hitchens Is Memorialized With an Irreverence That Would Please Him

The dazzling public intellectual gets a rousing and appropriately irreverent memorial service, Lloyd Grove reports.

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Polemicist and journalist Christopher Hitchens, who died in December at 62 after a battle with esophageal cancer, was celebrated Friday as an incorrigible contrarian, dazzling public intellectual, obdurate justice seeker, and passionate bon vivant in a star-studded memorial service at New York’s Cooper Union.

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