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Harold Pinter used the occasion of his Nobel Prize for Literature acceptance speech<\/a> to attack Bush & Blair over Iraq. Perfectly within his rights.<\/p>\n

Karl Ritter, the AP writer covering the event, wrote, “The Nobel committee has not shied from rewarding writers who make a stand against authority, notably in rewarding the literature prize to Soviet dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn in 1970.”<\/p>\n

No, seriously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Harold Pinter used the occasion of his Nobel Prize for Literature acceptance speech to attack Bush & Blair over Iraq. Perfectly within his rights. Karl Ritter, the AP writer covering the event, wrote, “The Nobel committee has not shied from rewarding writers who make a stand against authority, notably in rewarding the literature prize to … <\/p>\n

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