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October 9, 2009 9:21 AM

The Audacity of the Nobel Committee

(AP Photo/Torbjorn Gronning)
The sound you could hear this morning was of heads being scratched around the world.

Very quickly, the Nobel Committee found itself having not just to explain its choice of President Barack Obama for the Peace Prize, but to defend it.

There have been controversial selections before, but rarely one that caused this much puzzlement.

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