October 11, 2013
By Ben Brumfield, CNN
She was a contender, at least in hearts and headlines.
At
16, Malala Yousafzai would have become the youngest recipient of the Nobel
Peace Prize, if she had been awarded it Friday. In addition, she would have
been the youngest winner ever of a Nobel Prize in any category.
Instead,
the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded it to the international chemical weapons
watchdog that is destroying poison gas stockpiles in Syria
Malala
apparently feels like the OPCW deserves it. A message went out on a Twitter
account representing her to congratulate the OPCW and thank it for its
"wonderful work for humanity."
The
activist from Pakistan
A
year ago, an Islamist militant shot her in the head. It looked like she would
die. This week, headlines cheered for her to win the peace prize.
She
was modest about her own prospects of winning and felt receiving the prize at
this point in her life would be premature, she told CNN's Christiane Amanpour
in an interview that airs Sunday at 7 p.m.
"I
think that it's really an early age," Malala said.
But
there's always later. She wants to do more to earn it first.
"I
would feel proud, when I would work for education, when I would have done
something, when I would be feeling confident to tell people, 'Yes! I have built
that school; I have done that teachers' training, I have sent that (many)
children to school,' " she said.
"Then
if I get the Nobel Peace Prize, I will be saying, Yeah, I deserve it,
somehow."
The
comment drew warm laughter from the audience.
Malala for Prime Minister
Despite
her diffidence with regards to the peace prize, Malala is very ambitious.
"I
want to become a Prime Minister of Pakistan, and I think it's really good.
Because through politics I can serve my whole county. I can be the doctor of
the whole country," she said.
But
greedier politicians be forewarned. If Malala held the highest office in the
land, the money would probably not flow into the pockets of cronies or pork
barrel projects. Her political ambitions seem to stop short of personal gain.
"I
can spend much of the money from the budget on education," she told
Amanpour. It appears that becoming prime minister is a means to the end she has
dedicated her life to.
Malala
has accomplished much for education in her short life, which she has imperiled
to do so.
The
Taliban didn't want girls to go to school. They banned it in 2009 in her native Swat Valley
Her
father, a teacher who ran schools for girls, taught her that she was stronger
than what or whom she feared.
She
kept going to school and speaking out for education, and she wrote an anonymous
blog for the BBC about her harrowing experiences. The Taliban came by on house
raids, and she had to hide her books.
Her
country honored her with the National Peace Prize in 2011 for standing up to
them.
Her
defiance enraged the militants.
The assassin
A
year ago, on October 9, 2012, they sent a gunman after her, while she was
riding home from school. He stopped the improvised school bus and stepped
inside.
Malala
recalled the moment of terror to Amanpour.
"He
asked, 'Who is Malala?' He did not give me time to answer his question."
What happened next may have been a bit blurry for her, but her best friend
Moniba later told her.
Malala
grasped Moniba's hand tightly and pushed hard against it. She was silent,
Moniba told her, as the gunman opened fire at near point-blank range.
"He
fired three bullets," Malala recalled. "One bullet hit me in the left
side of my forehead, just above here, and it went down through my neck and into
my shoulder."
It
left behind lasting damage to her ear drum and facial nerve.
"But
still if I look at (it), it's a miracle," Malala said.
She
is alive and smiling with no major brain or spinal damage.
Emergency
surgery in Pakistan UK
World cause
While
she recovered, the world rallied around her and powerful leaders, from U.N.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown,
rallied to her cause.
She
has already partnered with the United Nations on a program to promote global
education with the motto, "I am Malala."
This
week, marking the anniversary of her shooting, she published her memoir under
the same title. On Wednesday, the Pakistani Taliban threatened to attack any
bookstore that sells it. On Monday, they threatened to kill her again.
She
may not have won the Nobel Prize on Friday, but the European Parliament awarded
her the Andrei Sakharov Prize on Thursday for standing up to an oppressive
power.
And
a Nobel could still be in her future. Committee chairman Thorbjorn Jagland in Oslo
She
already knows what she would do with the prize money.
"A
Nobel Peace Prize would help me to begin this campaign for girls'
education," she told Amanpour.
In
the long run, Malala plans to hold out for an even bigger award.
"But
the real call, the most precious call, that I want to get and for which I'm
thirsting and for which I want to struggle hard, that is the award to see every
child to go to school, that is the award of peace and education for every
child. And for that, I will struggle and I will work hard."
http://edition.cnn.com/2013/10/11 /world/europe/nobel-peace-prize-speculation-malala/index.html
structure of the Lead：
WHO- Malala
WHEN- in 2009
WHAT-Her accomplishment in promoting the
education for girls
WHY-She want to let every child and girls
receive the education.
WHERE- Islamic Republic of Pakistan
HOW-She gave a lot of speech around the
world.
Keywords：
1.
memoir 傳記
2.
assassin 暗殺者
3.
militant 激進份子
4.
defiant 挑釁的
5.
contender 爭奪者
6.
anonymous 佚名的
7.
plight 困境
8.
imperil 危害
9.
harrowing 悲慘的
10. crony 好朋友
