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Arguments through the ages; Ambrose Bierce: Definitions from `The Devil's Dictionary'.(NEWS)

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From: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
Date: 20010305
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Editor's note: Ambrose Bierce (born 1842; believed to have died in 1914), a Union Army veteran of the Civil War, was an author and journalist who spent part of his career working for William Randolph Hearst. His sharp-witted cynicism won him the nickname "Bitter Bierce." "Death is not the end," he once observed; "there remains litigation over the estate." His death is mysterious; in 1913 he went to Mexico, hoping to witness its revolution, and was never heard from again. He had written to a niece that he thought being shot would beat other ways to die: "To be a Gringo in Mexico - ...

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