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How low can they go? Mohamed ElBaradei and the International Atomic Energy Agency win the Nobel Peace Prize.(THE WORLD)(Nobel committee)

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| November 07, 2005 | Nordlinger, Jay | COPYRIGHT 2005 National Review, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

TEN years ago, a conservative writer asked a strange but pertinent question: Is the Nobel Peace Prize worth winning anymore? The occasion was the giving of the prize to Joseph Rotblat, a physicist who had spent his long life colluding with the Soviet Union in a bogus anti-nuclear movement. The conservative writer, I must confess, was ... yours truly. And little has changed, in the ensuing decade.

The problem with writing off the Nobel Peace Prize altogether is that, occasionally, they give it to someone worthy: an Andrei Sakharov, a Lech Walesa, a Kim Dae-jung. But are they peace prizes, or, more accurately, freedom prizes? What do we mean by "peace"? Merely the ...

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