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Hunter S. Thompsom: Fear And Loathing In America
I prefer the short story by Hunter S. Thompsom: Fear and Loathing in America. It was more interesting and held my attention. Let me also say what I do not like about the article – in the article as I read along, I got to a point that there was this question on my mind: so what really happened that all these games are being called off in different cities? And till the end of the article I could not get the slightest deatail about what happened. But on the contrary in the short story by Hunter, before long he told you what happened, how the world trade center got attacked by four commercial jetliners. How many people died, he had this comparison to an earthquake death toll, that made one realize that the world trade center attack was really a
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