1.0 link 88852 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-fund/william-f-buckley-words-n_b_88852.html William F. Buckley struggled with the pain and inconvenience of emphysema for years, but it was only when he broke a bone in his right hand -- the hand he wrote with -- earlier this month that the decline of a man who very much lived by words accelerated. He sent out a note to a few close friends essentially saying that he knew the end was near.

It came at the desk in his study...

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