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The Nobel Prize in Controversy
Posted on 12. Oct, 2009 by Robert Voris.
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“The fame-making apparatus confers celebrity on an individual in a conflagration so intense that he or she can’t possibly survive.” – Don DeLillo John Bolton thinks that Barack Obama should decline the Nobel Peace Prize. In other news, John Bolton thinks that people care about what John Bolton thinks.
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The Nobel Prize Committee's Bold Call
Posted on 12. Oct, 2009 by Joel Schectman.
Obama didn’t ask for the Nobel Peace Prize, and the real nominating party will not be revealed for another fifty years under the rules for the competition. On its face it seems extraordinary, even unique, to have a statesman win the prize before he has achieved anything in either the areas of statecraft or peace. […]
