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Rush Limbaugh Calls Joe Scarborough A Neutered Chickified Moderate | Home | Obama: I Do Not Feel That I Deserve' the Nobel Peace Prize By PoliJAM | October 9, 2009 Though he has accomplished little thus far ten months into his presidency, U.S. President Barack Obama has been awarded the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize. The announcement of the award comes the same week that Barack Obama became the first U.S. President in 19-years ...
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Honored for peace in a time of war, President Obama is formally becoming a Nobel laureate on Thursday under such odd circumstances that even he will make a point of it. Continue reading here: Obama to receive Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo today (USA Today)
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(Reuters) A delicate balance of war, peace, domestic worries and international honor faced President Obama as he traveled to Oslo, Norway on Thursday to accept the Nobel Peace Prize. The president decided to skip some of the more ornate trappings associated with the awards ceremony and instead stuck almost exclusively to delivering a speech aimed at appeasing both a restless international community and a worried American public before ...
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16 hours ago ago from Informed Comment
The world has noted the irony that President Barack Obama is delivering his acceptance speech for the Nobel Peace Prize after launching an escalation of the Afghanistan war. Of course, the critique is a little misplaced, since the prize is for a specific policy success, not for being a pacifist. Still, Mr. Obama was clearly given the prize to encourage him in the direction of peace. It is the tragedy of the sole superpower that it is ...
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US President Barack Obama landed in Norway on Thursday to accept his Nobel Peace Prize , amid controversy over his role as a war president and widespread doubts about whether he deserves the honor. Obama touched down after an overnight flight from Washington on Air Force One, ahead of a day of ceremonies marking the surprise decision by the Nobel committee to honor the first-year president. Norway was rolling out its biggest ever ...
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Wartime US president picks up his peace prize OSLO, Norway (AP) -- Honored for peace in a time of war, President Barack Obama is formally becoming a Nobel laureate on Thursday under such odd circumstances that even he will make a point of it. In a ceremony in Oslo, the president will receive his Nobel Peace Prize medal and diploma for his work to reshape the way the United States deals with the world. Yet he does so under the long shadow of ...
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OSLO -President Barack Obama says lasting peace requires human rights and economic opportunity for individuals, and sanctions against regimes that violate international rules. As Obama accepted the Nobel Peace Prize Thursday he said war is sometimes necessary but a resilient peace can be achieved if the world imposes several conditions. He said the international community must impose meaningful sanctions on nations such as Iran and North ...
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1. Orhan Pamuk, The Museum of Innocence (Knopf, 2009) . From 1866 to 1872, Dostoevsky published Crime and Punishment , The Idiot , and The Possessed . In this decade, Pamuk has written the three most fully realized novels of ambition, an astonishing productivity -- he also published Istanbul: Memories and the City , one of the decade's most remarkable autobiographies--that leaves an indelible mark on world literature for the foreseeable ...
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Now, even the Nobel Prizes are on YouTube. In a break from decades of Nobel history -- when laureates' lectures were available only in real time to privileged attendees in Oslo and Stockholm -- this year's speeches are being broadcast live on the Web. The offerings are part of the foundation's drive to spread the Nobel brand and harness long-neglected intellectual-property rights. AFP/Getty Images U.S. President Barack Obama ...
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Jimmy Carter, Al Gore and Barack Obama have all been given Nobel Peace Prizes. Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher have not. Since 1901, the Nobel Committee has awarded the annual Prize to an entity, group or individual who works for peace in a significant way. Well, technically there have been 19 times that the Committee felt as if no one deserved the Prize and chose not to name a winner. The last time no winner was named ...
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