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Over the past year, I have picked a fight with Warren Buffett, defended Big Oil, Big Pharma, Big Guns, Big Coffee, Big Water and Big Asbestos, battled for a new U.S. Navy destroyer, got chummy with chips, dug the ditch-diggers, shimmied into $200 jeans and hit for the cycle. In the process, I infuriated a lot of people, helped the rich get richer and did my best to entertain, inform and stir up trouble. ...
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