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Published 12/25/2008 at Yahoo! News: Politics News
AP - British Nobel laureate Harold Pinter who produced some of his generation's most influential dramas and later became a staunch critic of the U.S.-led war in Iraq has died, his widow said Thursday. He was 78.
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