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Almost everyone agrees that Jimmy Carter was not our best President, but as former Presidents go, he's tops. This was confirmed when the Nobel Committee recognized him for his "untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development." The committee acknowledged the role he played while President in the 1978 Camp David accords, when he forged a peace treaty between Egypt and Israel, and for the work he has done since leaving office in 1981. In 1982 Carter and his wife Rosalynn founded the Carter Center...
...writing. Sent to Auschwitz at age 14 in 1944, Kertesz was transferred to, and subsequently liberated from, Buchenwald in 1945. He returned to Hungary only to endure communist rule for four decades. In his novels and essays he revisits the Holocaust, pondering, in the words of the Nobel Committee, "the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history." Kertesz is grimly accepting of these ghastly events. His 1975 novel, Fateless, concerns a young boy shipped to Auschwitz who survives by conforming in thought and behavior. Within hours of the Nobel Prize announcement, his books sold...
Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2002 Jimmy Carter won the Nobel Peace Prize Friday - 24 years late. The former U.S. President should have been a laureate in 1978, when he brokered the Camp David accords with Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin. But the Egyptian and Israeli leaders shared that year's award, while Carter was left out for the most mundane of reasons, says Geir Lundestad, secretary to the Norwegian Nobel Committee. "Nobody nominated him in time...
This isn't the first year Carter's nomination arrived promptly. But in selecting him now, the Nobel panel made an unambiguous statement: as the 43rd U.S. President edges toward war, the committee pointedly embraced the 39th, whose post-White House career has been all about conflict resolution and prevention. The official citation made only a veiled reference to George W. Bush: "In a situation currently marked by threats of the use of power, Carter has stood by the principles" of mediation and cooperation. But in case anybody missed the point, chairman Gunnar Berge elaborated: "This must be read...
Berge's sharp words - first at the Nobel press conference, then in an interview with Time at the Nobel Institution's 19th-century mansion in Oslo - provoked rare public rebukes from his startled colleagues, who, in keeping with the committee's low- profile style, did not attend the announcement. Inger-Marie Ytterhorn said that Berge's interpretation didn't reflect the whole panel's, while Hanna Kvanmo denied that the subject even came up at the oval Art Nouveau table where the committee holds all its meetings. Maybe the problem was less what Berge said than that he spoke...