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Best line of the week: Sue’s description of Emma as “a real floozy and a man eater,” a “mentally-ill ginger pygmy with eyes like a bush baby...

Author: By Luis Urbina | Title: Recap: "Vitamin D" | 10/9/2009 | See Source »

...symbolizing the committee's grudges. And it probably won't do Obama any favors; he wants to be a leader, not a symbol, and honoring him for his rhetoric about a new American approach to diplomacy only reinforces the meme of his critics that he's merely a man of rhetoric. (See pictures of Barack Obama's nation of hope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama's Nobel: Another Slap at George W. Bush | 10/9/2009 | See Source »

Valode is torn between two clashing theories. The first suspects the committee cynically sought to lift the award's profile and restore some of its star-quality status, "and what better way of doing that than to give it to the most popular man on the planet today?" Valode asks. Conversely, Valode says the committee may have gotten pragmatic by making a fundamental change in who it sees as most likely to promote and obtain peace today. "Previously, it was the charities, the non-governmental organizations, the brave diplomats who dared to believe," he says. "Now, perhaps the committee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Was the Nobel Committee Thinking? | 10/9/2009 | See Source »

...because he was the opposite of humble: because he braved the enmity of some of his supporters by dedicating himself to peace between Israel and Palestine; because he backed his words against nuclear-weapons proliferation with action to stop it; because he reminded Americans, with John Donne, that no man is an island and that poverty, despair and hunger anywhere diminish and indeed threaten those who are not poor, not hopeless and not hungry. Humility is fine, in the quiet of Obama's room, with his family, in private. But not in his public life - the life that he shares...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Limits of Humility: How Obama Got It Right | 10/9/2009 | See Source »

...That's an understatement. As TIME's Mark Halperin notes on The Page, "Barack Obama's critics have long accused him of being a man of 'just words,' rather than concrete actions and accomplishments. The stunning decision to award him the Nobel Peace Prize for, basically, his rhetoric, will almost certainly infuriate his detractors in America more than it will delight his supporters." (Read Mark Halperin's take on The Page...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Winning the Nobel Peace Prize Could Hurt Obama | 10/9/2009 | See Source »

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