Home

Wow

« previous entry | next entry »
Oct. 12th, 2007 | 08:05 am

Al Gore and United Nations panel share Nobel Peace Prize.

In seemingly unrelated news, five people died from a car bomb in Baghdad and an even more horrifying case where a bomb was planted among toys, and the Pakistani army reports 200 militants were killed in three recent days of fighting on the Afghanistan border.

***********

I forgot to note it here, but if you haven't heard, Doris Lessing won the Nobel Prize for Literature, which surprised me only because I thought she had already won it back in the early 90s.
Tags: , , ,

Link | Leave a comment | Add to Memories | Tell a Friend

Comments {4}

froglette vaxette

(no subject)

from: [info]tealfroglette
date: Oct. 12th, 2007 03:13 pm (UTC)
Link

I love that she made the people who came to inform her carry in her groceries since she had just returned from food shopping! ;)

Reply | Thread

Mari Ness

(no subject)

from: [info]mariness
date: Oct. 12th, 2007 10:45 pm (UTC)
Link

And that she cancelled a dinner invite because she had just won a Nobel Prize!

Talk about your excuses!

Reply | Parent | Thread

Kat

(no subject)

from: [info]kittykatkatja
date: Oct. 12th, 2007 03:51 pm (UTC)
Link

I've never read any Doris Lessing, but I've loved the interviews with her.

Reply | Thread

Mari Ness

(no subject)

from: [info]mariness
date: Oct. 12th, 2007 10:50 pm (UTC)
Link

I was assigned several of her short stories and at least one of the novels back in college. Actually, that's why I figured she'd won the Nobel Prize -- she seems to be accepted as canon.

Reply | Parent | Thread