Grant Heston ([email protected])
Sat, 17 Oct 1998 14:49:16 -0400
Last May, after he held aloft the hands of John Hume and David Trimble
during a Belfast concert to support the political settlement in Northern
Ireland, U2 lead singer Bono stood off to the side of the stage and
regarded the two politicians with a wide grin.
''Those boys,'' he mused, indicating Hume and Trimble with his thumb,
''should win the Nobel Prize.''
Bono got his wish yesterday when Hume, the visionary Catholic pacifist who
was the prime architect of the peace process, and Trimble, the one-time
hard-liner who led a wary Protestant community to compromise with Irish
nationalists, were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
For more, check out
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe/globehtml/290/Two_architects_of_Irish_accor
d_win_.shtml
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