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Notebook: Nobel Prize Signals Hope


 

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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 South Africa, and Al Gore in 2007 for life-long commitment to protecting planet earth.

 

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 America and that president Obama’s global approach has been welcomed.

 

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.


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