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...Emanuel. The speech arrived a few minutes later, and after reviewing the draft one more time, Obama walked back to his chair, grabbed his coat, and then, at 11:15 a.m., made his way outside to face the world for the first time, as a 2009 winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. With a grim visage that seemed more appropriate for a runner-up than the winner of such a prestigious prize, Obama did his best to deflect the honor. "Let me be clear," he said. "I do not view it as a recognition of my own accomplishments but rather...
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...leader is part of Costa Rica's pre-environmental generation - from a time, before the 1980s, when Costa Rica actually had one of the world's highest deforestation rates. Today's greener Tico cohort came of age after Arias' first presidency in the 1980s, when he won the Nobel Peace Prize for helping to end Central America's bloody civil wars. "Mr. Arias has definitely remained in the past century," says Rodriguez, whose Social Christian Unity Party is a liberal counter to Arias' more conservative National Liberation Party. He argues that while Arias' talk is visionary, his walk is still...
President Barack Obama made time for a brief statement about his Nobel Peace Prize award on Friday, before heading in to a more pressing engagement - a high-powered White House strategy session on the next phase of his war in Afghanistan. That was just one indication that this year's peace prize was, as Obama himself put it, honoring aspiration rather than achievement...
...start the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, his entreaties haven't exactly been well received or borne any fruit. In all these foreign policy quandaries, not to mention North Korea's nuclear program, the President will face ugly choices, none of which will be ameliorated by the kudos of a Nobel Peace Prize. (See TIME's Photoshop imaginings of Obama's other awards...