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Nobel Laureate Shares What The Peace Prize Meant to Her

The New York Times | Posted 12.13.2011

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On Saturday I was in Oslo with two of my sisters from Africa, Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkol Karman, to receive the Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of - ...

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Alfred Nobel's Last Will And Testament: He'd Be Proud Of President Obama's Peace Efforts

Jackson Williams | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jackson Williams

Some critics have claimed the prize should be the "culmination of a career." Says who? Not Alfred Nobel, and he ought to know.

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Obama, Nobel, and Realpolitik

Kate Southwood | Posted 05.25.2011

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Kate Southwood

Is President Obama's lack of reference to Carter and Bunch surprising? Not really, considering his defense in Oslo of "just war."

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Obama Deserves the Nobel Peace Prize

Bart Motes | Posted 05.25.2011

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Bart Motes

Obama has given new possibilities to a world that only a year ago was defined by conflict. He's rejected the zero-sum game of the Bush years in favor for respect driven diplomacy.

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I'm OK With It

Ralph D'Andrea | Posted 05.25.2011

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Ralph D'Andrea

My mind was on other things yesterday, but then Barack Obama threw me a curve by winning the Nobel Peace Prize simply for not being George Bush.

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Barack Obama, Nobel Peace Laureate: Whatever Happened to Awarding for Deeds Actually Done?

Michael Russnow | Posted 05.25.2011

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Michael Russnow

It is enormously premature for Obama to be getting this great tribute, which to a certain extent cheapens the prior recipients and the work all of them performed over so many years.

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The Land Mines Obama Won't Touch

Bill Moyers | Posted 05.25.2011

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Bill Moyers

The United States is the third largest stockpiler of land mines in the world, behind China and Russia. Like those two countries, we have refused to sign an agreement banning the manufacture, stockpiling and use of land mines.

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Does President Obama -- and America -- Deserve the Nobel Prize?

Hoyt Hilsman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Hoyt Hilsman

This movement to change America did not begin when Barack Obama took the presidential oath of office -- it has been underway for decades.

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The Norwegians Got It!

Lester Sloan | Posted 05.25.2011

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Lester Sloan

While writers, poets, and scientists usually win the award for what they have accomplished, statesmen, philosophers, and other persons of ideas are honored for the causes that they champion.

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