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Nobel Peace Prize Nominees Include the Internet

2003 laureate Shirin Ebadi supports Nobel for everyone

(Newser) - The internet—yes the entire technological concept—could be the next Nobel Peace Prize winner. It’s among the record 237 individuals and organizations nominated for the prize, and it has significant muscle behind it. Supporters include 2003 winner Shirin Ebadi, the Italian version of Wired magazine and Nicholas Negroponte,...

Michael J. Fox Gets a PhD
 Michael J. Fox Gets a PhD 
Mar 5, 2010 2:13 PM CST

Michael J. Fox Gets a PhD

Actor awarded a doctorate for work on Parkinson's disease

(Newser) - Michael J. Fox will soon become Michael J. Fox, PhD. The Karolinska Institute—the Nobel Prize people—will award the actor an honorary doctorate for his philanthropic work toward finding a cure for Parkinson's disease. "I'm grateful to the Board of Research and to the Karolinska Institute for this...

Legendary Economist Paul Samuelson Dead at 94

Nobel laureate write classic intro text for 'dismal science'

(Newser) - Paul A. Samuelson, the first American Nobel laureate in economics and a familiar name to generations of college students, died today at his home outside Boston. He was 94. Ben Bernanke praised his former MIT professor as "a titan of economics," and a colleague said of their fellow...

How Obama Can Earn the Peace Prize
 How Obama Can 
 Earn the Peace Prize 
OPINION
Dec 10, 2009 10:29 AM CST

How Obama Can Earn the Peace Prize

Get out of Iraq, stop the drone attacks, and get a state for Palestine

(Newser) - Barack Obama’s Nobel Prize was more of a nudge toward peace than a recognition of his accomplishments in pursuit of it. Juan Cole of Salon offers some ways Obama could live up to the award:
  • Get out of Iraq on time. We’ve done what we can, and the
...

Obama: 'War Is Sometimes Necessary'
 Obama: 'War Is 
 Sometimes 
 Necessary' 
nobel acceptance speech
Dec 10, 2009 7:53 AM CST

Obama: 'War Is Sometimes Necessary'

Obama accepts peace prize by saying force morally justified

(Newser) - President Obama accepted the Nobel Peace Prize today with, paradoxically, a defense of war. Obama began his speech by acknowledging the controversy surrounding his reward, both because his accomplishments are slight and because of the wars he presides over. “We will not eradicate violent conflict in our lifetimes,”...

Mideast Peace Would Justify Obama's Nobel
Mideast Peace Would Justify Obama's Nobel
Joe Klein
Oct 16, 2009 12:13 PM CDT

Mideast Peace Would Justify Obama's Nobel

There's consensus on a deal; the president is the guy to get it done

(Newser) - With his Nobel Prize, President Obama has once again been celebrated and rewarded for who he’s not (George W. Bush) and who he might be. Although Obama’s preferred foreign policy MO—patient diplomacy on many fronts—doesn’t “lend itself to high drama,” that's exactly what...

Most of Nobel Panel Objected to Obama Pick

Chairman Thorbjoern Jagland talked fellow voters into selection

(Newser) - President Obama's Nobel Prize was a tough sell for the chairman of the committee that awarded the honor, with three of the five members initially opposing his selection, anonymous sources tell a Norwegian newspaper. They were persuaded mainly by chairman Thorbjoern Jagland, who strongly backed Obama from the beginning. The...

Nobel Jury: Obama Is the Right Choice

One says of critics: 'Where do these people come from?'

(Newser) - The Nobel panel that gave the peace prize to President Obama is strongly defending its choice amid widespread criticism. "We simply disagree that he has done nothing," said chairman Thorbjoern Jagland. Another of the five panelists said of critics: "Where do these people come from?" The four...

2 Americans Win Econ Nobel, Including 1st Woman

Professors cited for research into economic governance

(Newser) - The Nobel Prize in economics was awarded today to two US professors—one of whom is the first woman ever to win the prize—for their research into decision making in structures outside of markets. Elinor Ostrom, of the University of Indiana, was cited for her study of the commons,...

Israelis, Palestinians Skeptical of Obama Nobel

Israel fears prize will spur president to 'force-feed' them peace deal

(Newser) - President Obama won praise from Israeli and Palestinian leaders after yesterday's surprise Nobel Peace Prize win, but many others on both sides of the conflict expressed puzzlement and wariness. The decision is "very strange," said the speaker of Israel's parliament, adding that he hoped Obama wouldn't now feel...

Reagan Would've Applauded Nobel Decision
Reagan Would've Applauded Nobel Decision
OPINION
Oct 9, 2009 4:25 PM CDT

Reagan Would've Applauded Nobel Decision

(Newser) - Republican pundits reacted predictably to news of President Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize. Noting that the committee gave the award on the basis of Obama’s efforts rather than accomplishments, John Bolton noted, “President Reagan called for a world without nuclear weapons; where was his Nobel peace prize?” But...

Obama's Nobel Is the 'Not George W. Bush' Award

He's now the fourth recipient

(Newser) - The Nobel Peace Prize President Obama won today is nothing more or less than the “fourth Nobel Prize for Not Being George W. Bush,” writes Michael Grunwald. The other beneficiaries of the NPNBGWB were Jimmy Carter in 2002, for criticizing the Iraq war buildup; Mohamed ElBaradei of the...

Six People Irked by Obama's Nobel Prize

What do Sarkozy, Clinton and the Taliban have in common?

(Newser) - The decision to award President Obama the Nobel Peace Prize has clearly made some people unhappy, writes Katie Connolly for Newsweek. Here are six of the most peeved:
  1. Nicolas Sarkozy: The French president was also up for the honor but was passed over for someone he’s described as “
...

Limbaugh: Obama Nobel a Bid to 'Emasculate' US

Rush, fellow conservatives jump all over award

(Newser) - Rush Limbaugh doesn’t think the Nobel committee members were trying to honor President Obama—he thinks they’re trying to “emasculate" the United States. “With this ‘award’ the elites of the world are urging Obama, THE MAN OF PEACE, to not do the surge in Afghanistan,...

Obama: I'm 'Surprised and Deeply Humbled' by Nobel

President will accept the honor as a 'call to action'

(Newser) - A beaming President Obama says he's honored to win the Nobel Peace Prize but isn't sure he's done enough to earn it. Appearing in the Rose Garden today, Obama acknowledged he was "both surprised and deeply humbled" to win the award. He said he does not "view it...

Carter Likes Nobel Pick, Taliban Not So Much
 Carter Likes Nobel Pick, 
 Taliban Not So Much   
nobel reaction
Oct 9, 2009 9:32 AM CDT

Carter Likes Nobel Pick, Taliban Not So Much

Nicolas Sarkozy says something odd about the world's hearts

(Newser) - Not everybody thinks Barack Obama's Nobel prize is a weird choice. Jimmy Carter, who won it himself in 2002, calls it a "bold statement of international support for his vision and commitment." More reaction:
  • Taliban spokesman: "He has done nothing for peace in Afghanistan. We condemn this
...

Gibbs Woke Up 'Humbled' Obama With Nobel News

(Newser) - It wasn't quite the 3am phone call Hillary Clinton envisioned, but still big news in the White House. Robert Gibbs had to wake up the president before dawn today with news that he'd won the Nobel Peace Prize. "The president was humbled to be selected," said Gibbs, who...

Be Smart, Barack: Turn Down the Prize

Obama accepting the Nobel will only reinforce right's caricatures

(Newser) - Barack Obama, Nobel Peace Prize laureate? "They could have awarded it to Kylie Minogue and I wouldn’t have been half as surprised," writes Ben Brogan of the Telegraph, who thinks the "bunch of Scandinavian worthies" have made a silly, self-satisfied choice. Yet while the Norwegians have...

Obama Win Mystifies Both Admirers and Detractors
 Obama Win 
 Mystifies Both 
 Admirers and 
 Detractors 

NOBEL PRIZE REACTION
Oct 9, 2009 6:29 AM CDT

Obama Win Mystifies Both Admirers and Detractors

What was the committee thinking, given the challenges in Afghanistan and Iraq?

(Newser) - Barack Obama was in office for just two weeks when the deadline for this year's Nobel Peace Prize passed, yet the first-term president has already got himself the world's most famous award. Detractors and admirers are both scratching their heads.
  • "This is completely bizarre," writes Wall Street Journal
...

Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize
 Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize 
UPDATED
Oct 9, 2009 4:04 AM CDT

Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize

Committee cites president's commitment to disarmament, international institutions

(Newser) - President Barack Obama is the surprise winner of this year's Nobel Peace Prize, which was awarded "for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples." The Norwegian Nobel committee said it attached particular importance to Obama's commitment to nuclear disarmament and his emphasis on the...

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