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Death of a Madman
What Obama does next will help define the legacy of Osama Bin Laden.
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Christopher Hitchens (1949-2011) was a columnist for Vanity Fair and the author, most recently, of Arguably, a collection of essays.
Photograph of Osama Bin Laden by AFP/Getty Images.
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