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Finally, the people of Northern Ireland need to work to create a society of non-violence. John Hume, the recently retired leader of the moderate Catholic Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP), and Trimble won the Nobel Prize in 1998 for their work for the peace agreement. Since he founded the SDLP in 1969, Hume has been consistently opposed to violence while supporting the nationalist ideals. By following his example of considering this a political struggle and not a war, the people of Northern Ireland can learn to live like Americans—at peace with fellow citizens...
Increasingly, the U.N. has been there to pick up the pieces. And when the organization and Annan won the Nobel Peace Prize last week, it was as much an acknowledgment of what they have done to repair the mistakes of the past decade as a recognition of how they had tried--and failed--to prevent those mistakes from unfolding. In Kosovo and East Timor, the U.N. has begun to turn nation building into a science, learning how to construct functioning governments and societies in countries torn apart by hate. It is a skill the U.N. may soon be called...
Even before the announcement last Friday, preparations were under way at U.N. headquarters for the possibility of a Nobel. Annan had been in the running once before, in 1998, but U.N. officials had been worried that an award then, while Annan was still in his first term as Secretary-General, would have made him too "saintly" to stand a chance at a second. But this year the stars seemed perfectly aligned...
...unappeasable desire to see the world as a release from what he believed to be his stunted and provincial origins. In retrospect, he despised Trinidad so much that he couldn't bring himself to mention it in his thank-you remarks on learning he'd won the Nobel. "It is a great tribute," he announced in measured terms, through his publisher, "to both England, my home, and to India, home of my ancestors." Well, among other places...
...twenties before moving to Hollywood, where he often collaborated with writer Neil Simon and producer Ray Stark, churning out hit films such as The Sunshine Boys (1975), The Turning Point (1977) and Steel Magnolias (1989). AWARDED. To the U.N. and its Secretary-General, KOFI ANNAN, 63, the Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of their work for "a better organized and more peaceful world"; in Oslo. Annan, who first took up the post in 1997, has already been elected to serve a second term. ELECTED. NANCY PELOSI, 61, feisty San Francisco Congresswoman, to the position of Democratic whip...