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It was reported over the weekend that Obama’s speech at the United Nations describing his dream of a nuclear-free world helped clinch his Nobel Peace prize. Many have observed that while Obama’s words and sentiments are noble, the accomplishments that go along with earning a Nobel are lacking. However, I find his dream itself disturbing ... (Read more in DoubleX.)
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With the announcement this morning that Indiana University's Elinor Ostrom had won the Nobel Prize in Economics—the first women to do so in the prize's 40-year-history—the tally of 2009 women laureates rises to five. Since the program began in 1901, only 40 women total have won Nobels. Ostrom doesn't cut quite as striking a figure as DoubleX's new office style icon, Herta Mueller, but this photo fills my Monday-deadened heart with happiness ... (Read more in DoubleX.)
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I feel embarrassed for my fellow journalist class that it’s already
become the counterintuitive position to say that our president deserved
the Nobel Peace Prize. I woke up to the collective “Huh?” in my inbox:
He hasn’t done anything yet. He’s a trophy collector.
A prodigy who disappoints. But come on! Can’t the first African
American president, who is working hard to reverse eight years of a
destroyed American reputation, collect this essentially meaningless
prize? Yasser Arafat won the thing for God’s sake. How important can it
be? ... (Read more in DoubleX.)
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