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President in Oslo to Accept Nobel Peace Prize

President Obama is in Oslo today where he will accept the Nobel Peace Prize. Both supporters and critics alike have asked whether the President is deserving of this prestigious award only months into...

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Musical Acts at the Nobel Ceremony

Not even today’s otherwise somber Nobel Peace Prize ceremony will prove immune from the trappings of a big award show: marquee names will introduce over-the-top performances by acts that inconceivably...

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A History of the Nobel Peace Prize

The Nobel Peace Prize – along with prizes for physics, chemistry, medicine, and literature – has been awarded annually since 1901. The Takeaway takes a look at the history of the Nobel Peace Prize and...

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Anticipating President's Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech

Anticipating President Obama's Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, we speak to Richard Haass, President of the Council on Foreign Relations and Charlie Sennott, executive editor of Globalpost.

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Reacting to President's Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech

For reactions to President Obama's Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech we speak to Richard Haass, President of the Council on Foreign Relations, and Charlie Sennott, executive editor of Globalpost.

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Newt Gingrich On the President's Nobel Peace Prize

The mastermind of 1994's "Republican Revolution," former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, has never been shy with his opinion. He joins us this morning giving his read on President Obama's accepting...

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How Can the President Earn His Nobel Peace Prize?

The announcement that President Barack Obama would be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize this year came as a surprise to many – including the president, apparently – and inspired criticism that his record...

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Liu Xiaobo Wins Nobel Peace Prize While Serving 11 Year Sentence in China

Described as a chain-smoking, impassioned literary critic and political essayist, he has spent his adult life advocating for democratic reform in China. Today, he becomes the first Chinese citizen to...

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Nobel Peace Prize to Liu Xiaobo

Kwame Anthony Appiah, PEN American Center president, professor of philosophy at Princeton University, and author of The Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions Happen, discusses his nomination of 2010 Nobel...

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Chinese Dissidents Celebrate Liu Xiaobo's Nobel Peace Prize

We continue our coverage of Liu Xiaobo, the imprisoned Chinese dissident who was announced this morning as the winner of the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize. To learn more about Liu, we speak with a man who has...

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Top of the Hour: China Protests Nobel Peace Prize, Morning Headlines

China and a group of other countries are boycotting the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony over the award being given to Chinese Dissident Lee Shaou Bao. But one violinist scheduled for a performance might be...

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China and Others Boycott Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony

With the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony set for Friday, China is making clear its disapproval of the Nobel Committee's having given this year's award to political activist Liu Xiaobo. China is not only...

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Nobel Peace Prize Winner Liu Xiaobo

Author and pro-democracy activist Liu Xiaobo will receive the Nobel Peace Prize in absentia, today, as Chinese officials continue to hold him in prison. In 1989, Liu was working at Columbia University...

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Three Women Share Peace Prize

Foreign Policy news editor Cara Parks talks about the three Nobel Peace Prize winners: Liberians Leymah Gbowee and Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, and from Yemen, Tawakkul Karman.

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Pray The Devil Back to Hell

Leymah Gbowee, Liberian activist and winner of this year's Nobel Peace Prize and author with Carol Mithers of Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War, talks about...

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TED Talks: Nobel-Laureate Leymah Gbowee on Peace in Liberia, and the World

Leymah Gbowee, a speaker at TED2012, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2011 for her pivotal role with Women of Liberia Mass Action for Peace, the women's peace movement that, in 2003, helped end the...

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European Union Wins Nobel Peace Prize

The European Union has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for its efforts to promote peace and democracy in Europe, in the midst of the union's biggest crisis since its creation in the 1950s.The...

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Record Dow; Jody Williams; Energy Futures; Political Hip Hop

The Dow Jones Industrial Average hit a record high. Daniel Gross, the global business editor of Newsweek and the Daily Beast, explain what it signals about the economy. Plus: Bronx Borough President...

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Justice Sotomayor; Against Landmines; Primates and Humanism

Today's show is a best-of, so we won't be taking any calls. But the comments page is always open! We’re airing some of our favorite recent segments on this Memorial Day. U.S. Supreme Court Justice...

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