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Nobel Committee: Obama's prize right
The Swampby Mark Silva Members of the committee that awarded President Barack Obama the Nobel Prize for Peace are speaking out about their decision, in the face of widespread criticism. Four members of the five-member Nobel Committee have told the Associated......Tags: Government, George W. Bush, Jimmy Carter, Rush Limbaugh, International Relations
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Obama: Peace Prize for wartime prez
The Swampby Mark Silva As President Barack Obama heads for Oslo this week to accept the Nobel Prize for Peace -- only the third sitting president to accept the award -- he is ramping up the U.S. military deployment in Afghanistan,......Tags: Government, International Relations, Diplomacy, Politics, World War I (1914-1918)
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Nobel Prize: Watching Obama's lecture
The Swampby Mark Silva They've already had the lecture on "Telomeres and Telomerase: The Means to the End,'' by Elizabeth Blackburn, one of the Nobel Prize winners in medicine. And they've already heard the lecture on "Decoding the Genetic Message,'' by......Tags: National Government, Stockholm (Sweden), White House, Government, Elizabeth H. Blackburn
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Ten dumbest lines of the year: 2009
The Swampby Mark Silva There was no poll here. Just a selective recall from random memories of a year run amok with certifiably dumb ideas, which leads to our offering this afternoon of the 10 dumbest lines of the year: No.......Tags: Medical Services, Government, Honolulu, Global Warming, Politics
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Nobel laureate's lint remover: First lady
The Swampby Mark Silva Behind every successful man (In Saudi Arabia and Japan, perhaps), there stands a successful woman. But she stands in front of the man (from the United States, in this case) when there's lint on the lapel of......Tags: National Government, Government, Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, Awards and Prizes
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Obama's speech: 'Brother can preach'
The Swampby Mark Silva and updated again at 3 pm EST Today, on the day that President Barack Obama accepted a Nobel Peace Prize which even the recipient acknowledges has arrived early in his presidency, reviews of his Nobel Lecture are......Tags: John F. Kennedy, Defense, Executive Branch, Government, The New York Times
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How long can $100 last?
Last year the trip-planning website Tripomatic calculated one simple, fascinating statistic: In different cities across the globe, how long can $100 last? Presuming a traveler stayed in the cheapest possible accommodation (usually a shared dorm), took...
Tags: Trips and Vacations, Hanoi (Vietnam), Travel, Bangkok (Thailand), Norway
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A melancholy day: 'Oslo, August 31' ★★★★
Simple, honest and very possibly great, "Oslo, August 31" spans a day, an evening and an early morning in the life of a recovering drug addict. Right there most of you reading this review will think: No, thanks. Life's difficult enough. But some films,...
Tags: Human Interest, Movies, Entertainment, Reprise (movie), Norway
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Rutten: The maniac challenge
Sixteen years ago, I was one of The Times writers assigned to cover the Oklahoma City bombing. It was one of those wrenching stories that stand out in a reportorial memory that now extends back more than four decades, partly because my assignment was to...Tags: Oklahoma City Bombing (1995), Timothy McVeigh, Guerrilla Activity, Arts and Culture, Mass Media
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Norway killer Breivik laments censorship, cold coffee behind bars
World NowAnders Behring Breivik gunned down scores of teenagers in a methodical killing spree last year on the Norwegian island of Utoya, at one point telling fleeing youths, "You're all going to die." Now behind bars, Breivik has held forth on the topic of... -
Justin Bieber won't be charged in altercation with photographer
L.A. NOWCiting insufficient evidence, prosecutors announced Wednesday that they will not pursue criminal charges in connection with an altercation last May in Calabasas in which pop star Justin Bieber allegedly punched and kicked a photographer. Los Angeles... -
Norway mass killer Anders Behring Breivik is found guilty, declared sane
World NowAn Oslo court found confessed mass killer Anders Behring Breivik guilty in the killings of 77 people last year, opting not to declare him insane. Breivik, 33, faces at least 21 years in prison for the twin attacks in July 2011, a sentence that can be...
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