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It is a prestige pantheon that includes the world most
accomplished political and moral leaders.
The Nobel Peace Prize! Mother
Theresa won it in 1979 for her tireless work with the poor and the sick, Nelson
Mandela in 1993 for transforming a racially segregated
Today it was announced that the 2009 Peace Prize will go to
President Barak Obama. It was startling
piece of news considering he’d been in office just 12 days before the
nominations were due. The award clearly
signals hope from the international community that new days have dawned new
But just nine months into his first terms, it seems more likely an investment of future’s trade from the Nobel Committee on the promise of what they might see one day from the man who now literally has the world on his shoulders. That’s a page for my notebook, I’m Katy Courics, CBS News.