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The Gates affair, Hitchens, and intoxication
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Officer James Crowley, and President Obama are going to sit down and drink beer together, and chat.
Christopher Hitchens, meanwhile, recounts an incident in which, "almost intoxicated," he mouthed off to a police officer. The Slate columnist was rendered semi-tipsy, he says, by his "mere possession of constitutional rights."
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Joshua Rothman is a graduate student and Teaching Fellow in the Harvard English department, and an Instructor in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He teaches novels and political writing.
