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...class their theme: the resentment and suspicion the unders had for the uppers, which Pinter stripped of overt political references and flipped into the power that one person exercises with cool brutality over another. The TIME description of his script for the 1963 film The Servant - that it was "acid splashed into the wound of class distinction" - could apply to much of Pinter's work: an outsider's unblinking view of the sadism with which the haves humiliate the have-nots...
...presumably triggering bankruptcy - if it believes the restructuring goals are not being met. The near-term target is a March 31 deadline for the automakers to show a plan for achieving long-term viability. Based on White House and Treasury descriptions of the plan, this will be less an acid test than a subjective assessment of progress...
...Catalonia, Spain. The world-renowned chef, known for mixing food and science, spoke about his novel creations to a packed audience last night in Jefferson Hall. Adrià has pioneered, for example, the art of melon caviar—he combines cantaloupe and water with the chemicals alginic acid and calcic to create the spherification of tiny caviar-like balls. The use of scientific techniques—often referred to as molecular gastronomy or molecular cooking—has formed a basis for the cuisine Adrià serves at elBulli. “In Spain, in high-end cuisine, this...
...Recently, there was that horrible story about an acid attack on schoolgirls in Afghanistan. Do you have thoughts about that? We're facing a very difficult challenge in Afghanistan. Unfortunately, there are people we are battling who don't feel that an enlightened, educated society is necessarily in the best interest of Afghanistan. This has been going on for quite some time. My publisher built a school in my name, on my behalf and on behalf of all the educators, the teachers, the librarians, and booksellers in this country who supported The Kite Runner and made a donation...
...settlers had expected it would come and when there would be hundreds more braced for confrontation inside the disputed building - the Israeli police and military averted the first threat. The eviction went off relatively smoothly, although eight people were slightly injured, one of them a police officer who had acid thrown in his face by a settler militant. But the extremists delivered on their promise to vent their rage on Palestinian innocents. (See images of West Bank settlers battling eviction...