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Obama's Scandinavian travel: Take two
The Swampby Mark Silva With the winning of a Nobel Prize for Peace, President Barack Obama will be making a return trip to Scandinavia. The president plans to collect his award in person in Oslo, the White House said today --......Tags: Government, Nobel Prize Awards, Summer Olympics, Michelle Obama, Travel
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Nobel Peace Prize unleashes partisan war
Top of the TicketAfter Republican Party Chairman Michael Steele dismisses Obama's award, Democrats fire back, and the combat continues throughout the day.... -
'The Amazing Race' recap: Needle in a haystack (redux)
Reality CheckBucky's back with this week's recap of The Amazing Race. Take it away, Bucky ...The teams leave the Amsterdam pit stop for their next destination, Sweden, in the usual staggered fashion—12 hours after they checked in—and head for the airport....Tags: Stockholm (Sweden), Sweden, Transportation Accidents, Music
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Nobel Prize: Watching Obama's lecture
The Swampby Mark Silva They've already had the lecture on "Telomeres and Telomerase: The Means to the End,'' by Elizabeth Blackburn, one of the Nobel Prize winners in medicine. And they've already heard the lecture on "Decoding the Genetic Message,'' by......Tags: Nobel Prize Awards, Government, Stockholm (Sweden), National Government, Barack Obama
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Obama accepts Nobel Peace Prize days after announcing troop surge
Comments BlogPresident Obama accepted the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo today, acknowledging in his speech the hotly debated irony of receiving it as a wartime president. According to a Times article today, Obama’s speech to the Nobel Committee defended his...... -
Obama accepts Nobel, seeks 'just peace'
The SwampRead a full text of the president's Nobel Lecture below the fold. See the president's speech here and read the full report from Oslo, updated at the conclusion at 8:20 am EST. (Also see, below the fold, the toast that......Tags: International Law, Democracy, Social Issues, Prisons, U.S. Military
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Obama toasts the inventor of dynamite -- Text
Top of the TicketAmerican Democrat president salutes Alfred Nobel at Obama's prize banquet.... -
Obama says Nobel Peace Prize is 'a call to action'
President Obama, who has pledged to place diplomacy ahead of confrontation and reached out to a skeptical world with offers of mutual understanding, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace today for what the Nobel committee called "his extraordinary efforts...Tags: Government, Theodore Roosevelt, International Relations, Barack Obama, Cairo (Egypt)
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Two Americans With California Ties Win The Nobel In Economics
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterTwo Americans have won the Nobel Prize in economic sciences today for their research in the way economic decisions and transactions are made outside of the market. Elinor Ostrom, a Los Angeles native who teaches at Indiana University in Bloomington, Ind....Tags: Nobel Prize Awards, Science and Technology, Indiana University, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles
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President Barack Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize
Web ReporterPresident Barack Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for "his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples," the Norwegian Nobel Committee said, citing his outreach to the Muslim world and attempts...Tags: Theodore Roosevelt, International Relations, United Nations, Barack Obama, Jimmy Carter
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How Obama spent his $1.4 million Nobel Peace Prize
Top of the TicketTen U.S. charities get the money from the estate of Alfred Nobel.... -
'Déjà Vu'
Times Staff WriterJerry BRUCKHEIMER, the producer-king of mass audience mayhem, is not in the habit of giving his films French titles, but "Déjà Vu" is in the business of confounding expectations. Rather than the routine Denzel Washington-starring potboiler the...Tags: Gene Tierney, Denzel Washington, Dana Andrews, Crimes, Movies
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