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Do We Blame Hemingway for Cecil’s Fate?

A Hunter’s Code

The Nobel Prize-winning novelist epitomized the idea of the great white hunter. But Hemingway’s ideas about hunting are a world apart from Cecil’s killer’s.

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Blame it on Hemingway and America’s historical love of hunting! That’s the latest charge arising out of the anger over the recent killing of Cecil,

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