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James W. Gilchrist, founder of the Minuteman Project, was uninvited from a speaking engagement Saturday at the Harvard Undergraduate Legal Committee??s annual Public Interest and Law Conference, sparking debate over the limits of free speech...
...Nobel Peace Prize Committee??s announcement last Friday that Barack Obama would become the next recipient of its prestigious award caught the whole world—including the White House—by surprise. And the committee??s assertion that Obama deserved the Nobel Prize “for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples” has done little to mollify critics, who note that there is little in the way of substantial, sustained progress toward peace on Obama’s resume. Indeed, the elevation of speeches and promises...
...many ways, the Nobel Peace Prize Committee??s move seems to be little more than a rebuke of the previous administration. It would be naïve to say that the Nobel Peace Prize is not a political statement, but this year the political agenda appears particularly blatant. The award seems in this case to be a reaction that was 8 years coming, rather than a matter of desert...
...Nobel Prize Committee??s misguided attempt to make a political statement should not reflect poorly upon President Obama or his presidency thus far. The Nobel Peace Prize was the last thing on Obama’s mind when he received the award. Additionally, the president responded with appropriate humility by noting that he did not feel he deserved the prize and has done the best thing he can reasonably be expected to do in such a situation by treating the award as a “call to action.” Hopefully, President Obama?...
While she said that the fall’s experiment has been a success, the committee??s next challenge is to see which new space can be used with the coming winter...