Notable Quotes

ITS not a unity (meeting) at all if the chiefs are not consulted and are invited through the media. – Immanuel #Nu-Axa /Gaseb of the !Oe#Gan traditional authority condemned the planned unity meeting for Damaras at Otjimbingwe on Saturday.

THE mission should come and there is nothing that should stop the team from coming... We could not agree on the question of whether or not the mission should see civic society. We have agreed that the issue should be resolved by principals (of the inclusive government) at principal level and I hope that will be done as a matter of urgency. – Zimbabwe finance minister Tendai Biti on president Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF succumbing to pressure from the MDCs and allowed the United Nations elections assessment team to visit the country to audit the political environment before the world body could fund the forthcoming polls.

From The History Books
Backward is just not a natural direction for Americans to look – historical ignorance remains a national characteristic. – Larry Jeff McMurtry is an American novelist, essayist, bookseller and screenwriter whose work is predominantly set in either the old West or in contemporary Texas. He is known for his 1975 novel ‘Terms of Endearment’, his 1985 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel ‘Lonesome Dove’, a historical saga that follows ex-Texas Rangers as they drive their cattle from the Rio Grande to a new home in the frontier of Montana, and for co-writing the adapted screenplay for ‘Brokeback Mountain’.  On 17 April 1986 he was awarded the Pulitzer prize for ‘Lonesome Dove’.

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