10-09-09

10-09-09—Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize [find a news source]

--There is powerful literature in all big cultures, but you can’t get away from the fact that Europe is still the center of the literary world, not the United States. The US is too isolated, too insular. They don’t translate enough and don’t really participate in the big dialogue of literature.”—Horace Engdahl, Nobel Prize Secretary, 2008 (NYT, C34)

--“The Damned United”[a British soccer movie] is rated R...British football fans, players, and coaches swear a lot when they’re upset. Also when they’re happy. Pretty much when they’re awake.—A.O.Scott, NYT C8