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Barack Obama and the Nobel Prize
President Barack Obama received the Nobel Peace Prize today for what the prize committee called "his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples." Also today, corporate America is divided over climate change. Will regulations that raise costs for some create profits for others?
By Warren Olney • • 50m ListenPresident Barack Obama received the Nobel Peace Prize today for what the prize committee called "his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples." Also today, corporate America is divided over climate change. Will regulations that raise costs for some create profits for others?
Banner image: President Barack Obama watches as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (R) shake hands at a trilateral meeting at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York, NY, September 22, 2009. Official White House photo: Pete Souza
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The Nobel Committee today awarded the 2009 prize for Peace to US President Barack Obama for "his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples."
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