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...Pinter. Characters' true meanings are always hidden between and behind the words. A simple invitation to sit down can become a dangerous contest for the upper hand. That's what makes him so tantalizing, and so uncomfortable. "His choice of words is so specific," says the actress Lindsay Duncan, who created the role of Prue in Celebration. Ian Holm, who is currently starring in The Homecoming - and also had a different role, Lenny, in the original 1965 production - agrees. "The language is pared down until every word has immense power," he says. "He relishes every phrase. Pinter is the best...
Conservatives hate to meddle in the markets. So it would be hard to find a more unlikely advocate for federal price controls than California Congressman Duncan Hunter, whose voting record nearly every year gets a 100% rating from the American Conservative Union. But when the owner of a small metal shop in El Cajon showed Hunter his December electric bill--$115,000 for the month, four times what the man had been paying before the state's electricity crisis began--Hunter changed his mind. "I came to the conclusion that this wasn't free enterprise," the San Diego County Republican...
...committed pro-European in a party that is deeply Euro-skeptic. Shadow home secretary Ann Widdecombe may galvanize the grass roots, but she is on the right of a party already criticized for moving too far in that direction. Other possible contenders, such as shadow defence secretary Iain Duncan Smith, a former soldier, are relatively unknown to voters at large...
...rising interest in Harvard students," Duncan says. "Harvard is not a very activist campus, so we were emboldened...
...Duncan, who will be in Cambridge this summer working at Global Justice, similarly couched the cause in moral terms...