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The myth is simple and satisfying: genius labors long and hard, achieves brilliant success, wins Nobel Prize, basks in glory. But prizewinners' stories are rarely so straightforward. This year's controversial Peace Prize, for example, which was shared by Yasser Arafat, Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres, has triggered as much...
Instead, the winners--Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, and Palestine Liberation Organization Chair Yasser Arafat--spoke soberly of the work that remains to be done if peace is to last. They acknowledged, somberly, the victims on both sides who have died in wars and terrorist attacks...
All that doesn't change the fact that Rabin, Peres and Arafat will share what is perhaps the world's most prestigious honor for a task that isn't even half completed. In his 1895 will, Alfred Nobel specified that the peace prize bearing his name should be awarded to...
Nobel's words were vague. Still, it seems to us that good intentions should not be the stuff of Nobel prizes, especially given the fact that everything achieved in the last year could disintegrate as hastily as it was accomplished. At this embryonic stage in the peace process, Rabin Peres...
Humility on the part of the winners may play well on television, but it isn't enough. Rabin and Peres should decline the honor, rather than share it with Arafat and so disgrace the memory of his victims. In any case, if they are truly committed to the cause of...