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Sean Penn Visits Hugo Chavez, Talks Politics And Obama's Nobel Prize

AP | RACHEL JONES | Posted 10.30.2009 | Entertainment

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CARACAS, Venezuela — President Hugo Chavez said he met privately with actor Sean Penn on Wednesday, and that the Oscar-winning celebrity may fil...

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A Missed Opportunity: Human Rights in Asia

Jack Healey | Posted 10.28.2009 | Impact

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Jack Healey

Our president is afraid of being seen in public shaking the hand of the Dalai Lama. Publicly acknowledging the Dalai Lama's cause would be type of change I hoped to see when I gave money to Obama's campaign.

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Obama's Nobel: Paris and Berlin

Michael Brenner | Posted 10.17.2009 | World

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Michael Brenner

The different national responses to the Nobel award shed some light on what may be the reaction when it dawns on people that Obama is not the long awaited American messiah.

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Oslo's Calling

Will Durst | Posted 10.16.2009 | Comedy

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Will Durst

What worries me is, what kind of message are we sending kids? Bomb the Moon. Win a Peace Prize. You know what's next. People are going to want to bomb Mars. Just to see what happens.

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Nobel Jury Defends Obama Decision: We Disagree That He Has Done Nothing

AP | IAN MacDOUGALL and KARL RITTER | Posted 10.14.2009 | World

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OSLO — One judge noted with surprise that President Barack Obama "didn't look particularly happy" at being named the Nobel Peace Prize laureate....

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No Doubt Obama Deserves the Nobel!

Bernard-Henri Lévy | Posted 10.12.2009 | World

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Bernard-Henri Lévy

Isn't the very idea of giving the Nobel Peace Prize to a sitting head of state who makes war ultimately strange? Not if you think that the war in Afghanistan is a just war whose sole aim is peace.

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On Obama's Noble Peace Prize: Missed Peace Opportunities in the Mideast

Aladdin Elaasar | Posted 10.12.2009 | World

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Aladdin Elaasar

Obama has gained a great deal of popularity in and outside the U.S.. If he was to run for President elsewhere beyond the States, people would replace their old rulers with him in a heartbeat.

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Her? Oh, That's Just Crazy Old Aunt Peg

Ellis Weiner | Posted 10.12.2009 | Media

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Ellis Weiner

According to Peggy Noonan, Reagan deserved a Nobel because he failed to waste a fortune on a boondoggle that would have made the world less safe. That he failed to win it was "absurd."

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Why Obama Should Not Have Received the Peace Prize -- Yet

Robert Reich | Posted 10.12.2009 | Politics

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Robert Reich

Giving the Peace Prize to the President before any of his goals have been attained only underscores the paradox of Obama at this early stage of his presidency.

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Obama Sweeps Nobel Prizes

Peter Owen Nelson | Posted 10.12.2009 | Comedy

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Peter Owen Nelson

After President Obama was awarded the Peace Prize, I received an invitation from Chairman Jagland of the Nobel Prize Committee to live-blog their proceedings.

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Back and Forth on the Nobel Peace Prize

Michael Jones | Posted 10.12.2009 | Chicago

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Michael Jones

"Jimmy Carter and Al Gore, and now President Obama, got their awards for political reasons ... mostly a Scandinavian attempt to embarrass George Bush."

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M.I.A. on Obama Peace Prize: He Should Give It Back

Posted 10.12.2009 | Impact

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M.I.A. has never been afraid to be controversial. A member of the Tamil ethnic group, her positions against the Sri Lankan government have often resul...

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Obama's Unusual Nobel Peace Prize Just Right for Unusual Times

Sarah van Gelder | Posted 10.12.2009 | World

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Sarah van Gelder

It's no wonder that the Nobel Committee would want to encourage an embattled U.S. president who is trying to do the right thing. After eight years of recklessness, there's a lot of catch-up to do.

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Barack's Nobel: A Symbolic Gesture of Hope to the World's Youth

Scott Atran | Posted 10.10.2009 | World

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Scott Atran

The award of the Peace Prize to Obama is a symbolic gesture to youth all over the developing world who have a new hero. Perhaps the ability to simply inspire hope now indeed merits a Nobel.

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Peace and Politics

Paula Gordon | Posted 10.10.2009 | Politics

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Paula Gordon

My first thought on hearing the news was to rejoice. My second thought was anticipation of the squeals, whines and bellyaches that America's extreme wrong-wing noisemakers invariably shriek.

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Why Obama's Nobel Peace Prize Is Deserved

Andy Ostroy | Posted 10.10.2009 | Politics

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Andy Ostroy

After eight embarrassing years of reckless cowboy arrogance marred by war, war crimes and human rights abuses, Obama's Nobel Prize symbolizes the beginning of the U.S. return to respectability.

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Nobel Obama, Noble Gandhi ... and These Ignoble Times

Vamsee Juluri | Posted 10.15.2009 | World

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Vamsee Juluri

It may be true that President Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for promise rather than achievement, but let us not forget that there is at least one point on which he has already proven himself -- civility.

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GOP Pisses Off World; Wins Prize!

Steven Weber | Posted 10.10.2009 | Politics

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Steven Weber

While bestowing laurels upon Obama may strike some as premature, what is long overdue are the consequences for the right's assault on reason and sanity, consequences which have a satisfying irony.

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After the Peace Prize, Give War a Chance

David Quigg | Posted 10.09.2009 | Politics

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David Quigg

Afghanistan represents the opportunity for Obama to serve the American people brilliantly and, along the way, demonstrate that he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize.

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Dear Mr. President: Make This a Real Peace Prize

Deepak Chopra | Posted 10.09.2009 | Politics

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Deepak Chopra

Peace begins with those who have the power to make peace. Obama stands in a unique position in this regard. We've turned the corner from Bush's belligerence, but avowing peace isn't the same as action.

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Why Obama Deserves His Nobel

Rob Asghar | Posted 10.13.2009 | World

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Rob Asghar

What truly deserving champion of peace did the Nobel committee slight this year in the process? None to my knowledge.

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I Accept Your Peace Prize: An Open Letter to the Nobel Committee

Noam Biale | Posted 10.09.2009 | World

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Noam Biale

This year's prize is a recognition not just of nine months of leadership, but of a generation of civil rights struggle that culminated in November's election.

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Only Nine Months, But Still Deserving of the Prize

Diane Marie Amann | Posted 10.09.2009 | Politics

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Diane Marie Amann

Some are questioning the decision to give the award a scant nine months after the onset of Obama's Presidency. Such questions ignore just how much Obama and his administration have accomplished in that short time.

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On the Politics of Giving and Receiving -- Obama and the Peace Prize

MJR Montoya | Posted 10.12.2009 | World

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MJR Montoya

During the Nobel ceremonies, President Obama should graciously re-gift the prize, and he should instead recast it as recognition of those who have suffered through the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

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The Nobel Peace Prize: Calling a Truce, at Least for a Day

Wayne Trujillo | Posted 10.09.2009 | Denver

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Wayne Trujillo

President Barack Obama. The Nobel Peace Prize. Wow. Already? After determining that we are still in 2009 and I hadn't pulled a Rip Van Winkle, I then wondered if I was reading the title correctly.

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