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<DIV><STRONG><FONT color=#0000ff>Hello all,</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT color=#0000ff>The wonderful news that Harold Pinter has won
the Nobel has repeatedly said that he is giving up the theatre to concentrate
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<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff><STRONG>activism and writing poetry. This is not
true. Despite his cancer, he will return to the stage next year as part of
the English</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT color=#0000ff>Stage Company's 50th anniversary celebrations
at the Royal Court. He will act in Beckett's <EM>Krapp's Last
Tape</EM>--that's felicitous</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT color=#0000ff>casting!--in a special season which will also
feature new work from (Sir) Tom Stoppard.</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT color=#0000ff>--Denis.</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT color=#0000ff>________________________________<BR>"The sea is
history."--Derek Walcott<BR>_____________________________<BR>"That's what
hybrids were invented for: survival in changing
ecologies."--Lisa<BR>Doolittle.<BR>__________________________________________________</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT color=#0000ff>"To celebrate this award, and the work it
recognizes of those around the world, let me recall the words<BR>of Gandhi: My
life is my message. Also, plant a tree."--Wangari Maathai, winner of the 2004
Nobel <BR>Peace
Prize.<BR>________________________________________________________________________________________</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT color=#0000ff>" . . . and they shall beat their swords into
plowshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks: <BR>nation shall not lift up
sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more."<BR> Isaiah
2.4<BR>___________________<BR>Denis Salter<BR>Professor of Theatre<BR>McGill
University<BR>853 Sherbrooke Street West<BR>Montreal, QC<BR>H3A 2T6<BR>Tel (514)
398 6550<BR>Fax (514) 398 8146<BR><A
href="mailto:d.salter@videotron.ca">d.salter@videotron.ca</A><BR><A
href="mailto:denis.salter@mcgill.ca">denis.salter@mcgill.ca</A><BR>__________________</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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