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Nobel Prize: Peace
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A host of extremely influential world figures again nominated Gandhi for the 1948 Nobel Peace Prize. The nominators included former Prize-winners such as Emily Greene Balch and the American Friends Service Committee, five professors of philosophy at New York's Columbia University, five professors of law from the University of Bordeaux, and Norwegian professors Frede Castberg65 and Kristian Oftedal.66
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AMPATH is one of 181 nominees for the 2007 Prize, whose winner will be announced in mid-October. In 2006, Muhammad Yunus and his Grameen Bank, which provides micro-credit for low-income entrepreneurs in the developing world, won the Peace Prize.
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Even if a prize is declined, the winner is entered in the books, but the cash gift reverts back to the fund. In 1937, Hitler issued a decree that forbade Germans from accepting Nobel Prizes. He considered pacifist journalist Carl von Ossietzky's 1935 peace prize a slap in the face. In 1973 Le Duc Tho refused the Nobel Peace Prize as he did not believe peace had been reached in Vietnam.
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If you think there’s something odd about Mark Levin being able to nominate someone for a Nobel Peace Prize, you’re less gullible than Dan Riehl (e.g., when the weather report says it’s chilly tonight, you don’t run outside with a bowl). As it happens, we’ve seen this stunt before:
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The nobel prize Henry Kissinger won WAS shocking - why did a war criminal guilty of murdering millions in southeast asia get the peace prize? This is like giving the green river killer a prize because he stopped killing!
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There has been much speculation as to the reasons for Gandhi not receiving a Nobel Peace Prize, most of it, unfortunately, without any basis in fact. Easwaran, for example, maintains that it was
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