Refusal Of Nobel Prize

Barack Obama's Nobel Peace Prize may have confounded critics and created enormous expectations, but ultimately it had little influence on his refusal to get drawn into the bloodshed in Syria. In accepting the prize on December 10, 2009, the young US president, elected only a year earlier, gave a steely speech about "war and peace," outlining what w...

On Sunday night, the ever-elusive Bill Murray is expected to take the stage at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and accept the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, an award he actively avoided receiving. Last week he told The Washington Post's Geoff Edgers, "I really thought if I don't answer the phone for awhile, maybe they'll ju...

Spiritual leader Sri Sri Ravi Shankar was top of the Twitter charts on Monday for reportedly stating that he has refused the Nobel Peace Prize and criticizing its conferral upon Pakistani Malala Yousafzai, who was shot in the head by the Taliban on her way to school.

Barack Obama's Nobel Peace Prize may have confounded critics and created enormous expectations, but ultimately it had little influence on his refusal to get drawn into the bloodshed in Syria. In accepting the prize on December 10, 2009, the young US president, elected only a year earlier, gave a steely speech about "war and peace," outlining what w...

On Sunday night, the ever-elusive Bill Murray is expected to take the stage at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and accept the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, an award he actively avoided receiving. Last week he told The Washington Post's Geoff Edgers, "I really thought if I don't answer the phone for awhile, maybe they'll ju...

Spiritual leader Sri Sri Ravi Shankar was top of the Twitter charts on Monday for reportedly stating that he has refused the Nobel Peace Prize and criticizing its conferral upon Pakistani Malala Yousafzai, who was shot in the head by the Taliban on her way to school.