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• Nobel Peace Prize goes to women’s rights activists

  October 7, 2011 in Nation/World Africa’s first democratically elected female president, a Liberian campaigner against rape and a woman who stood up to Yemen’s autocratic regime won the Nobel Peace Prize today in recognition of … 1

• Spotlight: Locally filmed ‘Norman’ scoring big with critics

  September 25, 2011 in Features on Page D6 The soon-to-be- released “Norman” is a Spokane rarity – a locally filmed movie getting outstanding reviews and major film festival awards. “Norman” is a coming-of-age story about a high school …

• Chinese dissident Liu wins Nobel Peace Prize

  October 8, 2010 in Nation/World Imprisoned Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo won the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for using nonviolence to demand fundamental human rights in his homeland. The award ignited a furious response …

• Kathleen Parker: Obama rises to moment

  December 14, 2009 in Opinion on Page A7 After Barack Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize speech, anyone still questioning whether he is really a Christian, rather than a Muslim aligned with fanaticism, needs to seek therapy forthwith. Anyone still … 6

• Obama’s Nobel speech offers ‘just war’ defense

  December 11, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A3 OSLO, Norway – President Barack Obama delivered an impassioned rationale for war in accepting the 2009 Nobel Prize for Peace on Thursday, a paradox that he acknowledged, even as he … 4

• Obama defends war, urges peace

  December 10, 2009 in Nation/World Newly enshrined among the world’s great peacemakers, President Barack Obama offered a striking defense of war. Eleven months into his presidency, a fresh Obama doctrine. 16

• GOP, even some liberals, dismiss Obama peace prize

  October 9, 2009 in Nation/World Gee, you’d think a U.S. president who won the Nobel Peace Prize might get rave reviews from his party’s activists and polite congrats from top Republicans. 1

• Analysis: Obama’s Nobel honors promise, not action

  October 9, 2009 in Nation/World The awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to President Barack Obama landed with a shock on the nation’s capital. He won! For what?

• Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize

  October 9, 2009 in Nation/World President Barack Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday in a stunning decision designed to build momentum behind his initiatives to reduce nuclear arms, ease tensions with the …