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  • Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Krugman speaks during the World Business Forum in New York
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Names of nominees are kept secret for 50 years, so it will be a long, long time before outsiders know for sure who else was among the record 205 people nominated for this year's Peace Prize. That secrecy, of course, helps fuel the vigorous guessing game sparked each October before the announcement.
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  • News Source: National Public Radio | about 1 month ago
    Names of nominees are kept secret for 50 years, so it will be a long, long time before outsiders know for sure who else was among the record 205 people nominated for this year's Peace Prize. That secrecy, of course, helps fuel the vigorous guessing...
  • News Source: Voice of America | about 1 month ago
    Kenyans expressed both elation and a sense of national urgency Friday when it was announced that "son of the soil" Barack Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize. The award is the second time in the past six years that a person of Kenyan roots has won...
  • News Source: Voice of America | about 1 month ago
    President Barack Obama's historic life journey took another extraordinary step Friday when he was named the winner of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize. The prize comes just 11 months after then U.S. senator Obama became the first African-American to be...
  • News Source: Hindustan times | about 1 month ago
    US winners of the Nobel Peace Prize: 2009 : Barack Obama 2007 : Al Gore, with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 2002 : Jimmy Carter 1997 : Jody Williams, with International Campaign to Ban Landmines 1986 : Elie Wiesel 1973 : Henry A...
  • News Source: NewKerala | about 1 month ago
    Martti Ahtisaari, Finnish ex-president and veteran peace broker was awarded the prize, with the Nobel Committee citing his efforts to solve conflicts on several continents and over three decades...She has focused especially on the struggle for the...
  • News Source: Seattle Times | about 1 month ago
    Originally published Thursday, October 8, 2009 at 10:10 PM List of Nobel Peace Prize winners since 1980 Winners of the Nobel Peace Prize since 1980: By The Associated Press The Associated Press Winners of the Nobel Peace Prize since 1980: --- -...
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