Nobel Prize in Lit

[James Devine]

from SLATE: >Only the LAT [L.A. TIMES] front pages the award of a Nobel
Prize to Portuguese novelist Jose Saramago. The novelist is not only a
card-carrying Communist, he, like last year's winner, is an official enemy
of the Catholic church--one of his stories depicts Jesus losing his
virginity to Mary Magdelene. The WP includes this gem: "It's never been
easier to be a Communist than now," says Saramago, "because there's so few
of us." <

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