In 1988, Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar hailed the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to U.N. peacekeeping forces as a tribute to idealism, valor and sacrifice.

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Nobel Paul Krugman, emeritus recipient of the Absolut n Tonic Oslo Prize for Comparative Mixology, has called the recent Republican budget plans voodoo economics, whereas David Brooks is standing at the mineshaft door with a spirit of bold curiosity for the adventure ahead.

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The Bali meeting will be the first major conference of its kind since former Vice President Al Gore and a U.N. scientific council were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in October for their environmental work.

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But there is no reason a small team, appointed by the U.N. and Jakarta and led by 1996 Nobel Peace Prize-winner Bishop Carlos Felipe Ximenes Belo, should not be allowed to attend as observers.

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