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...Kouchner first railed to the world about the human costs of conflict in Africa. In 1971, while working as a young relief doctor in war-torn Biafra, he co-founded Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) or Doctors Without Borders, which would go on to win the Nobel Peace Prize. At the age of 67, Kouchner is still railing, but with a big difference: he is now the Foreign Minister of France, a post from which he could recast the country's approach to international relations, not least by potentially reviving a tight alliance with Washington...
...whose motorcade roared through Khartoum in mid-June was on familiar ground. Bernard Kouchner--France's new Foreign Minister--first went to Sudan three decades ago, during its bloody civil war, while running a little start-up relief group called Doctors Without Borders. With his former organization now a Nobel Laureate, Kouchner is back, trying to end the tragedy in Darfur, where government-supported militias have been rampaging for four years. He told TIME he was outraged by the death toll (upwards of 200,000, by some estimates), saying the world must "yell and make noise" about people's suffering...
...American Institute for Public Service established the Jefferson Awards in 1973 to serve as a Nobel Prize of sorts for public and community service, Peters said...
...contribute to relieving the misery of the world's poor, they perform a big-hearted act, returning to mankind a part of what they have earned from it. Bill Gates, Warren Buffet and others are to be commended for setting a great example; they should be rewarded with the Nobel Peace Prize. It is time for society to demonstrate that money is not its principal value and that altruism, compassion and philanthropy are still warming the hearts of men. John P. Tsahageas, PHILOTHEI, GREECE
...committee had courted the Nobel Prize-winning chemist Thomas R. Cech, head of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, as a viable outside contender. The group expected to spend the end of January and February contemplating the choice between Cech and Faust, but their hopes of a relaxed deliberation came to an end on Jan. 31, just a few days before Faust’s final interview, when Cech stunned the search committee by announcing he was pulling his name out of the race to be Harvard’s next president...