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...according to plan. What has worked out, however, is the annual set of awards, established in 1901, that bear his name. They remain the most prestigious intellectual awards in the world. On Dec. 11, 2009, President Obama will travel to Oslo to accept the 90th Nobel Peace Prize, an honor that places him in the distinguished company of the Dalai Lama, Kofi Annan and Mother Teresa. See the Top 10 Everything...
...lived a solitary life and spent most of his time tinkering with inventions, amassing 355 patents by the time he died in 1896. Following Nobel's death, his executors discovered that he had secretly created five annual prizes - for chemistry, physics, literature, medicine and peace - in his will to honor "the greatest benefit on mankind." It all came as quite a surprise. "It took five years to get the prizes started, because everyone had to figure it all out," says Hans Jornvall, secretary of the Nobel Committee at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden - the group that chooses the Nobel Prize...
...attacks were an inside job. But the majority of prizes have reflected sound discoveries (X-rays, quantum physics, penicillin) and respected leaders (Martin Luther King, Albert Einstein, Nelson Mandela). Much has been made of Obama's seemingly premature win and the committee's vague reasoning for awarding him the honor (they said he promoted "international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples"). Unfortunately, those seeking answers are out of luck: Nobel documents are sealed for 50 years...
...Cyrus, Beyoncé, Peter Gabriel and Bruce Springsteen. Critics in other groups may scratch their heads at the inclusion of this category, and especially of this year's honorees. The HFPA just sees it as another way to put famous fannies. The real critics groups have the freedom to honor their preferred films, whether hits or cult items; but the Globers have a sterner agenda. What matters to them is not what movies win but who's in the audience, and the roll call of nominations is their list for a fabulous party...
...accusation of anti-Semitism, he devoted his final energies to a two-volume book about the Jews which would, among other things, demonstrate that he was not anti-Semitic. It mostly did the opposite. When, in the wake of his death, Moscow authorities renamed a street in his honor, its residents—outraged that no one had consulted them and that they’d have to change their addresss on the numerous official forms still demanded by Russian life—tore down the new sign that bore his name...