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At a publishing party recently, I overheard an editor offer a satirical explanation of President Barack Obama's Nobel Peace Prize: namely, that members of the Swedish Academy had finally become so embarrassed by their willfully Eurocentric handling of... Full Article at Austin American-Statesman

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  1. Nobel Peace Prize winner Rajendra K. Pachauri delivers a speech during the national council meeting of the UMP (Union for a Popular Movement) political party in Aubervilliers near Paris November 28, 2009.
  2. NEW YORK - NOVEMBER 21: Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Dr. Muhammad Yunus attends the 2009 Sing for Hope gala at the Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse at Lincoln Center on November 21, 2009 in New York City.
  3. ROME - OCTOBER 19: The Nobel Peace Prize Winner Lech Walesa attends the 'Popielusko' Premiere during day 5 of the 4th Rome International Film Festival held at the Auditorium Parco della Musica on October 19, 2009 in Rome, Italy.
  4. WASHINGTON - OCTOBER 09: U.S. President Barack Obama greets members of the crowd following an event in the East Room of the White House in support of a new Consumer Financial Protection Agency and urging Congress to act quickly on October 9, 2009 in Washington, DC.
  5. US President Barack Obama walks to the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC, on October 9, 2009 to address reporters after he won the Nobel Peace Prize.
  6. OSLO, NORWAY - OCTOBER 09: Norwegian Nobel Committee Head Thorbjoern Jagland announces Barack Obama is to receive the Nobel Peace Prize on October 9, 2009 in Oslo, Norway.
  7. Former South African President F.W.de Klerk addresses an audience on May 5, 2009 at the National Press Club in Washington, DC.
  8. Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus (R), founder and managing director of Grameen Bank, shakes hands after speaking about microcredit at the Georgetown Global Forum Arpril 17, 2009, in New York.
  9. OSLO, NORWAY - DECEMBER 11: Actors Michael Caine and Scarlett Johansson arrive on stage to present the Nobel Peace Prize Concert 2008 at the Oslo Spektrum on December 11, 2008 in Oslo, Norway.

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