10.10.2013

inPrizeOfWomen

NYT: Alice Munro wins 2013 Nobel prize in literature

The short story IS important. Confirmed. 

una de Munro en BibliotecaIgnoria: Alga marina roja



CNN: Malala wins 2013 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought

English Parliament President Martin Schulz called the 16-year-old a "brave advocate for education" who "reminds us of our duty toward children and especially girls."

NYT: Documenting a Pakistani Girl’s Transformation The story of how Malala Yousafzai went from being a quiet 11-year-old to a spokeswoman for girls’ education to a victim of the Taliban to a Nobel Prize candidate.





Senator Elizabeth Warren: "If we default on our debt, we could bring a worldwide recession on -- a recession that would pummel hard-working middle-class people, people who lost their homes and jobs and retirement savings, who are barely getting back on their feet. We are playing with the lives of every American, and it is not what the American people sent us here to do".