Peace Prize

Will Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Win Re-Election?

AP | JONATHAN PAYE-LAYLEH and RUKMINI CALLIMACHI | Posted 12.10.2011

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MONROVIA, Liberia — She may have won this year's Nobel Peace Prize, but even that may not be enough to persuade voters in this nation with 80 pe...

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Liu Xiaobo Nobel Peace Prize May Not Be Handed Out

AP | BJOERN H. AMLAND | Posted 05.25.2011

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OSLO, Norway — The Nobel Peace Prize may not be handed out this year because China is not likely to let anyone from imprisoned award-winner Liu ...

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Literary Prize: Eggers Leads List Of Award Winners

Posted 05.25.2011

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Two very different organizations announced writing award recipients today. First, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize announced its finalists for writing...

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Israeli Author David Grossman To Be Awarded German Literary Peace Prize

AFP | Posted 05.25.2011

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One of Israel's best-known authors and outspoken peace activists, David Grossman, is to receive this year's prestigious German Book Trade Peace Prize,...

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Nobel Peace Prize Winner ElBaradei Writing Memoir

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK — Nobel Peace Prize winner Mohamed ElBaradei (ehl-BEHR'-uh-day) is writing a memoir about his years as head of the International Atomic...

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Donald Trump Points To Snow Storms, Calls For Al Gore To Be Stripped Of Nobel Prize

Posted 05.25.2011

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Donald Trump wants the Nobel Committee to strip former Vice President Al Gore of his Nobel Peace Prize. The New York Post reports that the billiona...

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China Dissidents Top Nobel Peace Prize Speculation

AP | DOUG MELLGREN and IAN MacDOUGALL | Posted 05.25.2011

OSLO — Chinese dissidents are leading the odds of winning the Nobel Peace Prize this year, the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre...

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Nobel Winner Dalai Lama Calls Obama Peace Prize 'A Little Early'

Sky News | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Dalai Lama told Sky News: "I think if you are realistic, it may have been a little early but it doesn't matter, I know Obama is a very able person...

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Obama and the Nobel: Just Bizarre

Jesse Larner | Posted 05.25.2011

Now I know a lot of my friends are going to be very happy about this; a new day has dawned, etc. Personally I found it inexplicable. And disturbing. And vaguely annoying.

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Tiger Woods and the Human Condition

Jennifer Donahue | Posted 05.25.2011

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A sitting president returns with a Nobel Peace Prize, health care advancing quickly, climate change, as escalation in U.S. treasure abroad. Yet on the radio, it was all Tiger, all the time.

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