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	The Nobel Foundation regrets....

sting_crawler

10-2-2007 4:38 PM

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nobel, gandhi

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What's a prize, anyways...

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Stockholm, Oct 2 (bdnews24.com) � There is a long list of world leaders who were considered and debated at different points of time and yet never made it to the list, possibly reducing the weightage that the Nobel would have for many. </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bdnews24.com/details.php?cid=1&id=23247"><DIV>Of the misses, there was none more stark in its omission than that of Mahatma Gandhi. And the Nobel Committee now officially, for the first time in history, regrets it and accepts it was a mistake. </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bdnews24.com/details.php?cid=1&id=23247"><DIV>In Stockholm, Sweden, the executive director of the Nobel Foundation, Michael Sohlman, says that it was a mistake by the Norwegian Peace committee. </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bdnews24.com/details.php?cid=1&id=23247"><DIV>"The only missing laureate we had is Gandhi. It's a big regret that he did not get it (Nobel Prize), that's very clear," Solhman admits. </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bdnews24.com/details.php?cid=1&id=23247"><DIV>Gandhi was nominated five times for the Nobel but the Norwegian Nobel committee believed that the champion of non-violence could not be awarded because he was "neither a real politician nor a humanitarian relief worker". </DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/6715A1BB-6A3C-4106-B604-BFEE328C977F/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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