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telegraph.co.uk: Martti Ahtisaari and his wife: Nobel Peace Prize awarded to former president of Finland telegraph.co.uk

Russian human rights activists accuse Nobel Committee of pandering to Kremlin

telegraph.co.uk
10-Oct-2008 2 related
        

Russia's human rights community accused the Nobel Committee of pandering to the Kremlin after Lidia Yusupova, a leading activist who exposed abuses in Chechnya, was overlooked for this year's peace prize. By Adrian Blomfield in...

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yahoo.com: Ninety four per cent of Queenslanders claim they play or watch sport, the most of any state. yahoo.com

It's official: we're nation's biggest sports tragics

brisbanetimes.com.au
10-Oct-2008 2 related
        

Queenslanders have claimed the title of Australia's biggest sports fans, after a nationwide poll put them a nose in front of Victorians and those from NSW. The poll of 1900 people aged over 35 found just 6 per cent of...

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Mandela A Critical Life by Tom Lodge

allafrica.com
10-Oct-2008 1 related
        

Striking in appearance--six foot four and physically imposing--with an aristocratic bearing and incredible charm and self-assurance, Nelson Mandela is the greatest African leader in modern history, the winner of the Nobel Peace...

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News Minute: Stocks plunge...Peace Prize announcement...McCain losing ground

wafb.com
10-Oct-2008 1 related
        

Associated Press - October 10, 2008 4:53 AM ET TOKYO (AP) - Japan plans to propose to the world's leading industrialized nations that a joint fund be set up to give emergency loans to nations hit by the growing financial...

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News Minute: Wall Street jitters...Bush tries to calm fears...Putin's birthday gift

wafb.com
10-Oct-2008 81 related
        

Associated Press - October 10, 2008 8:53 AM ET NEW YORK (AP) - It could be another bumpy ride on Wall Street today. Dow Jones industrials futures plunged more than 280 points ahead of the opening bell. Frozen credit markets and...

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News Minute: Worldwide selloff...Nobel prize...Obama in prime time

kwch.com
10-Oct-2008 1 related
        

Associated Press - October 10, 2008 6:53 AM ET LONDON (AP) - Yesterday's dismal mood on Wall Street has spread across global markets. European and Asian stocks have plummeted. In Vienna, the stock exchange has been suspended...

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Author Le Clézio wins Nobel

thestar.com
10-Oct-2008 53 related
        

For those seeking great foreign authors who have yet to be discovered in English, the Nobel Prize judges present a fresh candidate: Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, this year's winner of the literature prize.

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A woman warrior

thenews.com.pk
10-Oct-2008
        

Friday, October 10, 2008 by Amber Darr Legend has it that in fourth century China there lived the woman warrior, Fa Mulan. In 1975, Maxine Hong Kingston resurrected the legend of the Woman Warrior in her semi-autobiographical...

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A list of Nobel Peace Prize winners since 1980

hindustantimes.com
10-Oct-2008
        

2008: Martti Ahtisaari 2007: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Al Gore, 2006: Muhammad Yunus, Grameen Bank 2005: International Atomic Energy Agency, Mohamed ElBaradei, 2004: Wangari Maathai 2003: Shirin Ebadi 2002:...

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Georgia: The Ignored History

georgiandaily.com
10-Oct-2008 31 related
        

Volume 55, Number 17 · November 6, 2008 By Robert English Zviad Gamsakhurdia, Georgia’s first post-Soviet president, from 1991 to 1992, has been dead for fifteen years. Trying to understand the Ossetian, Abkhazian, and other...

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