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Article: NOBELS, BOTH BAD AND GOOD THE ISSUE: DID KOFI ANNAN DESERVE THE PEACE PRIZE OUR VIEW: ONLY IF JUDGES MEANT TO AWARD EFFORT, NOT RESULTS.(Commentary / Editorial)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
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- October 16, 2001
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It's been obvious for years, but never more so than today: The Nobel science prizes recognize genuine achievement; the Nobel peace prize highlights frustration and wishful thinking.
This year's peace prize winner is the United Nations and its secretary-general, Kofi Annan, for working toward ``a better organized and more peaceful world.'' Annan has been a reasonably effective secretary-general and deserves credit for his institutional reforms, but the world is hardly better organized and more peaceful since he assumed leadership. Ironically, the judges cited Annan and the U.N. for their strides in battling HIV / AIDS and terrorism, two problems that have only worsened in ...