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The Nobel Prize With an Asterisk

Michael Winship | Posted 10.15.2009 | World

Read More: Obama Copenhagen, Norway, Obama Nobel Peace Prize, Iraq, Inger-Marie Ytterhorn, Afghanistan, Foreign Affairs, George W. Bush, World News
Michael Winship

Better to call this prize, as many have, including the Nobel committee, an aspirational award -- the committee expressing its own audacity of hope.

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Music: The Warm Sounds Born of Extreme Darkness and Bitter Cold (Includes Free MP3s!)

Tim Mohr | Posted 10.14.2009 | Home

Read More: Fa Fa Fa, Bergen, Free mp3 Download, Whitest Boy Alive, Fot I Hose, Royksopp, La Roux, Erland Oye, Norway, Little Boots, Hanseatic League, Slowpho, Datarock, Turin Brakes, Annie, Chewing Gum, Quiet Is the New Loud, Download, Fever Ray, Belle & Sebastian, Ai Phoenix, Ladytron, Free mp3, Madonna, Free Music, Norge, Robyn, Sondre Lerche, Casiokids, mp3s, Kings of Convenience, Anniemal, Geico, Declaration of Dependence, Talking Heads, Ladyhawke, Free Downloads, Home News
Tim Mohr

The northwesternmost outpost of the Hanseatic league--the drizzly harbor town of Bergen, Norway, nestled on the country's craggy west coast--is an unlikely hotbed for new music.

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A Song of Norway on Columbus Day

NBC NewYork | NBC New York | Posted 10.12.2009 | Home

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The Columbus Day Parade has a special meaning for me. It was the day in 1967 when I met my wife, Vera. ...

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Obama and the Nobel: Just Bizarre

Jesse Larner | Posted 11.13.2009 | World

Read More: Zimbabwe, Sweden, Nuclear Weapons, Peace Prize, Nobel, War, Morgan Tsvangvirai, Norway, Afghanistan, Thorbjorn Jagland, Iraq, Sima Samar, China, Barack Obama, Hu Jia, Muhammad Yunus, Aung San Suu Kyi, Nelson Mandela, Oscar Arias Sanchez, Palestine, Shimon Peres, Yitzhak Rabin, Israel, World News
Jesse Larner

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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Obama Awarded Nobel Peace Prize for Not Being George Bush

David Wallechinsky | Posted 10.09.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Nobel Peace Prize, Barack Obama, Obama Nobel, Norway, Nobel Prize Committee, Comedy News
David Wallechinsky

The Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded this year's Nobel Peace Prize to U.S. President Barack Obama, citing "his extraordinary efforts to strengthen in...

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Nobel Insiders: Beer Summit Sealed it for Obama

Andy Borowitz | Posted 10.09.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Mad Men, Borowitz Report, Andy Borowitz, Norway, 30 Rock, Nobel Peace Prize, Beer Summit, Barack Obama, Oslo, Comedy News
Andy Borowitz

A spokesman for the Nobel committee said she hoped that Mr. Obama's victory would be seen not only as a victory for him, but "as a tribute to the healing power of beer."

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Obama Nobel for Being Good not Great Man

Tom Matlack | Posted 10.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Nobel Peace Prize, Barack Obama, Norway, Obama Nobel, Raising Children, Beer Summit, Fatherhood, Manhood, Politics News
Tom Matlack

Obama sets an example for the rest of us 40-something guys looking in the mirror asking ourselves those difficult questions how to move forward.

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Bad News! Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize

Frank Schaeffer | Posted 10.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Nobel Prize, President Obama, Obama Nobel, Birthers, Norway, Right Wing, Nobel Peace Prize, Liberals, Politics News
Frank Schaeffer

The neoconservatives will trumpet this as the ultimate evidence of Obama being a socialist, embraced by notoriously socialist Norway.

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China Dissidents Top Nobel Peace Prize Speculation

AP | DOUG MELLGREN and IAN MacDOUGALL | Posted 10.07.2009 | World

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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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Norway Best Place To Live: UN Report

Huffington Post | Posted 10.05.2009 | World

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An annual report by the United Nations has found that Norway has the highest standard of living for its citizens. The BBC reported that the UN looke...

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'All-star team of Israel-haters' at Norway school raises concern

Haaretz. | Haaretz | Posted 10.04.2009 | Home

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In a move which Foreign Ministry sources defined as "unusual," Israel's embassy in Norway has officially protested the launch of a high profile academ...

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UN fires top US official at UN in Afghanistan

AP | EDITH M. LEDERER | Posted 11.30.2009 | Home

Read More: Kabul-Afghanistan, Afghanistan, Norway, Home News

UNITED NATIONS — Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has fired the top American official at the U.N. mission in Afghanistan.

U.N. spokeswoman Michele Montas said in a statement Wednesday that Ban decided to recall Peter Galbraith and end his appointment as the U.N.'s deputy special representative.

Diplomats said Galbraith disagreed with the head of the U.N. mission, Kai Eide, over how to deal with widespread fraud charges from the presidential election in Afghanistan.

Montas said the secretary-general reaffirmed his full support for Eide.

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Coulomb Teams With 365 Energy Group To Successfully Install Norway's 1st ChargePoint Station

AllAboutElectric | AllCarsElectric | Posted 11.29.2009 | Home

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Yesterday, Coulomb Technologies announced the successful installation of the first ChargePoint station in Norway. Along with the help of European s...

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"Happy" Anniversary, Iceland

Iris Erlingsdottir | Posted 11.28.2009 | World

Read More: IMF Funding, International Monetary Fund, Economic Crisis, Iceland Economic Crisis, Norway, Alcoa, Iceland Global Economic Crisis, Iceland Economy Collapse, Iceland, Denmark, Iceland Bankrupt, Iceland Banks, Iceland Economy, Lehman Brothers, Iceland National Bankruptcy, IMF Bailout, Financial Crisis, Western Europe, Imf, Iceland Financial Crisis, Lehman Brothers Bankruptcy, World War II, Iceland Bank Crisis, Monty Python, World News
Iris Erlingsdottir

This has been a very rough year for Iceland, and it's not likely to get better anytime soon. The public's anger continues to grow, and it would not be surprising if this winter sees a repeat of last winter's uprising.

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Spain: Israel team out of contest over West Bank

AP | DANIEL WOOLLS | Posted 11.24.2009 | Home

Read More: Madrid-Spain, Spain, Gaza, Norway, United Kingdom, Israel, Britain, Home News

Spain's Housing Ministry says it has disqualified a group of Israeli academics from a solar power design competition because their university is in the West Bank.

The move is the latest in a series of low-level European sanctions against Israel over its West Bank settlements.

A ministry official says Spain has acted in line with EU policy of opposing the settlements.

The ministry has disqualified a team from Ariel University Center of Samaria from the Solar Decathlon. Samaria and Judea are the two Biblical names for the land now known as the West Bank.

The contest is sponsored by the U.S. Energy Department, but Spain is hosting it in 2010 and 2012.

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US, Switzerland sign treaty to share tax info

AP | Posted 11.23.2009 | Home

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Switzerland and the United States have signed a treaty to increase the amount of tax information they share to help crack down on tax evasion, Swiss officials said Wednesday.

The agreement follows a model set out by the Paris-based Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development designed to make it harder for taxpayers to hide money in offshore tax havens.

U.S. tax authorities will be able to request information on Americans suspected of concealing Swiss bank accounts, the Swiss Finance Ministry said.

The treaty forbids so-called 'fishing expeditions,' meaning U.S. authorities have to provide specific details on the person they are seeking further information about and can't simply ask for wholesale lists of Americans with Swiss accounts, the ministry said.

The agreement, which comes into force immediately, won't be retroactive.

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Scandinavia Fights Female Genital Mutilation

globalpost.com | Posted 11.20.2009 | World

Read More: Female Genital Mutilation Denmark, Women's Rights, Female Circumcision, Norway, Female Genital Mutilation, Scandinavia Female Genital Mutilation, Female Genital Cutting, Denmark, Sweden, Sweden Female Gentital Mutilation, Current Female Gential Mutilation, World News

STOCKHOLM, Sweden -- When she was 11, a Swedish-born girl was taken on vacation to her mother's native Somalia. The mother wanted to "make her daughte...

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Women in Hip-Hop: The B-girl Be Festival

Lauri Lyons | Posted 11.18.2009 | Entertainment

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Lauri Lyons

When it comes to women in hip-hop, don't call it a comeback. Women have been here for years.

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Thanks Glenn Beck -- This 'Socialism' Sounds Great!

Paul Raushenbush | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Housing Market, Amazing Grace, Rush Limbaugh, Carter, Laissez-Faire, Michael Steele, Glenn Beck, Socialism, Jfk, Capitalism, Health Care, Christian, Forclosure, Arianna Huffington, Fdr, Russia, Marx, Rasmussen-Reports, Norway, Sweden, Politics News
Paul Raushenbush

Capitalism has been given a pass while Americans struggle. When will capitalism be a word as dirty as socialism?

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Sicko Reprise, Please

Ellen Snortland | Posted 10.21.2009 | Living

Read More: Sicko, Protests, Viagra, Norway, Michael Moore, Pharmaceuticals, Healthcare, Barack Obama, Living News
Ellen Snortland

The Norwegian health care system is so pro-active and prevention oriented that it would strain credibility for any American politician to even think about implementing it here.

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Farm-Raised Salmon Are Turning Our Oceans Into Polluted Feedlots

Tara Lohan | Posted 10.19.2009 | Green

Read More: Salmon, Sustainable Fishing, Food, Aquaculture, Fish Farming, Fish, West Coast, British Columbia, Ireland, Salmon of Hte Americas, Norway, Climate Change, Disease, Environment, Scotland, New York Times, Green News
Tara Lohan

Farming salmon, once a dream fish, has become a nightmare for the environment.

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Why Isn't Health Care a Right?

Kate Southwood | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bill of Rights, World Health Organization, Obamacare, Health Care Reform, Norway, Universal Health Care, Health Insurance, Medicare, Veterans, Health Care Debate, Health Reform Myths, u.s Spending Health Care, American Health Care System Ranked 37th, Norwegian Health Care System, Health Care as a Right, Politics News
Kate Southwood

So if America is already spending more on health care than anyone else and if America's health care technology is second-to-none, why isn't health care a fundamental right?

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Norwegian Towns Sue Citigroup Over Investment Losses

latimes.com | Edward Cody | Posted 09.27.2009 | Business

Read More: Vikram Pandit, Citi, Norway, Bremanger, Hemnes, Sognefjord, Hattfjelldal, Citigroup, Business News

Vik, Norway - The 2,800 residents of this pristine village isolated on a narrow finger of the gleaming Sognefjord are embarrassed, angry and eager to ...

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Slackline's Highest Walk

Wend | Wend | Posted 09.25.2009 | Home

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Click here to view the embedded video. This was recorded as the Guinness World Records highest slackline walk done by Christian Schou in Norwa...

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Mona Juul, Norwegian Diplomat, Blasts UN Chief In Leaked Report

Der Spiegel | Julian Isherwood | Posted 09.19.2009 | World

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A top secret report by a senior Norwegian diplomat on the performance of United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has been published in Norway. An...

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