Aravind Eye Care System received the Conrad N.Hilton Humanitarian Prize.
VOA: special.2010.04.27
Global reaction was swift and varied. U.N.Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon described the peace prize as "great news".
VOA: standard.2009.10.09
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.
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.