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Ten years after his first nomination, Gandhi was again considered for the Nobel Prize. In 1947 he was nominated by three Indian politicians.61 At this time Norwegian public sentiment favored Indian independence and supported Gandhi.
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Yunus and the bank were surprise winners among the 191 nominees for the most prestigious of the Nobel awards. Speculation in recent days had focused on diplomats and officials who brokered last year's Aceh peace accord, which ended 29 years of fighting in the Indonesian province, and on global celebrities that included Bono, the U2 lead singer and anti-poverty campaigner.
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There are several reasons why Nobel chose Norway. Sweden and Norway were still joined together in a union when Nobel wrote his will, and the Storting had demonstrated through practical policies its support of modern ideas about peace, such as disarmament and arbitration to prevent conflicts from escalating into full-scale hostilities.
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CWIAD, you still need to explain why you believe that ALL liberal/progressives think that “jesting about the liberal wimps at Nobel being child pornographers is somehow worse than actually *being* a child pornographer. Typical leftwing reasoning, makes no sense of course.”
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