Article: NOBEL PRIZE It's about the seed Critics sound like the Kanye West of Nobel Prizes. The president's peace prize is for his efforts to change a foreign affairs paradigm that has ill-served the nation and the world.

Despite the predictable squawking, the Nobel Committee's decision to award the peace prize Friday to President Barack Obama is an honor in which the entire country ought to take pride.

No, nine months into his presidency, world peace has not broken out. But he has carefully created a climate in which negotiation, diplomacy and respect have supplanted bluster and obstinacy on the world stage.

It is unmistakable that his efforts have not completely borne fruit. But Obama is being awarded the prize for the seed, not the fruit. As others are observing, this rationale made possible the award in 1971 to West German Chancellor Willy Brandt for his policy of rapprochement with communist Eastern ...

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