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Nobel jury speaks out in defense of Obama prize

Posted  | Comment  | Recommend | | | OSLO (AP) — One judge noted with surprise that President "didn't look particularly happy" at being named the laureate. Another marveled at how critics could be so patronizing. In a rare public defense of a process normally shrouded in secrecy, four of the Nobel jury's five judges spoke out this week about a selection they said was both merited and unanimous. To those who say a Nobel is too much too soon in Obama's young presidency, "We simply disagree ... He got the prize for what he has done," committee chairman Thorbjorn Jagland told The Associated Press by telephone from , France, where he was attending meetings of the Council...


Caribbean News

More Jamaican Criminals Could Be Extradited To U.S. by admin

CaribWorldNews, KINGSTON, Jamaica, Weds. July 28, 2010: Christopher `Dudus` Coke is only one in a number of criminals the U.S. wants. United States Assistant Secretary of State Arturo Valenzuela, in Jamaica on a tri-nation Caribbean visit, said Tuesday the U.S. has handed in a series of extradition requests for suspected Jamaican criminals to the government of Jamaica. `There is a series of extraditions that the United States has requested, and we look forward to those being processed,` he disclosed at a press conference Tuesday. But he did not reveal any names. Valenzuela also made a push for greater effectiveness of the Proceeds of Crime Act to defeat organized crime in Jamaica. `This Act... Read more »



Business

Mark Hemingway: Congressmen like Rangel are subject to a different standard – Washington Examiner


Mark Hemingway: Congressmen like Rangel are subject to a different standard
Washington Examiner
August 2008: The New York Post reports that Rangel's tax filings showed no income on his Caribbean villa, even though it was being rented out. ...

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Sports

Test ambling towards stalemate after dour day-news_sports —

Rain and dour batting from West Indies combined to transform the fourth day of the second Test against South Africa into a humdrum affair at Warner Park on Monday

Entertainment

Memorial service Saturday for homeless reggae singer Claudius Linton – Long Beach Press-Telegram


Memorial service Saturday for homeless reggae singer Claudius Linton
Long Beach Press-Telegram
Claudius Linton, a pioneer in reggae who was a contemporary of Bob Marley and Peter Tosh, in Long Beach in February. ...

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