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  • Nobel Prize Winner's Priorities Skewed

    12/17/2003 11:17:29 AM PST · by faludeh_shirazi · 22 replies · 2,698+ views
    The Intelligencer ^ | Dec 17, 2003 | The Intelligencer
    Nobel Prize Winner's Priorities Skewed! Free Iran at ActivistChat.com! FRENCH STOOGE/PAWN/PUPPET The annual announcement of the Nobel Peace Prize lately is more often anticipated with a cringe, with the likes of Yasser Arafat having claimed the prize. This year's prize sends another highly mixed message. Shirin Abadi, an Iranian human rights activist, is this year's recipient, and she used the occasion to lash out not at the oppressive mullahs of Iran but against the West in general and, in thinly veiled remarks, the United States in particular. "Regulations restricting human rights and basic freedoms ... have been justified and given...
  • The Pope is better off without a Nobel prize

    10/13/2003 5:22:11 AM PDT · by Colosis · 5 replies · 77+ views
    The Daily Telegraph ^ | 10-13-03 | Kevin Myers
    The Pope is better off without a Nobel prizeBy Kevin Myers (Filed: 12/10/2003) Does the Pope care that he did not win the Nobel Prize for Peace? One might equally ask whether he goes to lap-dancing clubs or gambles in Las Vegas. He has dedicated his entire life to others; now that his temporal life is coming to an end, and he is about to embark on what he considers his true life, is it remotely possible that he is interested in the acclaim of those strange people in darkest Scandinavia who make these awards?So we should rejoice that...