If you look at the people picking up the Nobel Peace Prize, they`re frequently “indigenous” people like the mendacious Rigoberta Menchu or Third World “wise men” like Mohammed Yunus. , Wangari Maathai, or Shirin Ebadi. (All together now–“Who?”)But if someone is going to discover something new in physics, chemistry, or medicine—not so much.
Even before the age of affirmative action, the Nobel Peace Prize has always been the Special Olympics of the Nobel World. You don`t have to achieve peace, you just have to mean well.
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