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Obama's Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
Read the full transcript of President Obama's remarks in Oslo Thursday. Plus, read analysis from Peter Beinart and watch a clip.
Nobel High Jinks
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Samuel P. Jacobs is a staff reporter at The Daily Beast. He has also written for The Boston Globe, The New York Observer, and The New Republic Online.
Think it's hard winning a Nobel Prize? Try accepting one. You need to know how to chat up the king, best Olympic hockey goalies, and outdrink the Swedes. Samuel P. Jacobs on Obama's medal challenge.
Literary Lights Fête Mailer
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The Daily Beast is dedicated to news and commentary, culture, and entertainment. We carefully curate the web’s most essential stories and bring you original must-reads from our talented contributors.
Don DeLillo, Joan Didion, Salman Rushdie, Toni Morrison, and many more honored Norman Mailer's memory Tuesday night with the first annual gala celebrating his writers' colony. VIEW OUR GALLERY.
White House Rampage
The Obama White House has been playing hardball as of late-ordering Wall Street paycuts, targeting Fox News, the Chamber of Commerce, and the health-insurance industry with uncharacteristically intense criticism. The Daily Beast picks apart Obama's newly aggressive strategy.
A Prize Too Far
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Christopher Buckley's books include Supreme Courtship, The White House Mess, Thank You for Smoking, Little Green Men, and Florence of Arabia. He was chief speechwriter for Vice President George H.W. Bush, and is editor-at-large of ForbesLife magazine. His new book is Losing Mum and Pup, a memoir. Buckley's Daily Beast column is the winner of an Online Journalism Award in the category of Online Commentary.
The Daily Beast's award-winning columnist delivers a message from President Obama to the Nobel committee: Thanks, but no thanks.
He Won What?!
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The Daily Beast is dedicated to news and commentary, culture, and entertainment. We carefully curate the web’s most essential stories and bring you original must-reads from our talented contributors.
Daily Beast contributors weigh in on the Nobel committee's controversial selection of President Obama for the peace prize. Plus, VIEW OUR GALLERY.
Gore 'Thrilled' By Obama's Nobel
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Allan Dodds Frank is a business investigative correspondent who specializes in white collar crime. He also is President of the Overseas Press Club of America, one of the many journalism organizations that protests the arrests of journalists abroad and repression of freedom of speech.
Former Vice President Al Gore jumped to the defense of President Obama today, saying the Nobel is "very well deserved" and praising his efforts at curbing climate change.
10 Power Food Combos
How Barack Beat Bibi
Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is associate professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation. His new book, The Icarus Syndrome: A History of American Hubris, will be published by HarperCollins in June. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook.
Are Hospitals the New Killing Fields?
Kent Sepkowitz is an infectious disease specialist in New York City. He has contributed to The New York Times, Slate, and, oh-so-briefly, O Magazine. He also writes academic medical articles that are at times pretty tough sledding.
March 20: The Week in Viral Videos
The Daily Beast Video curates the most essential and entertaining video, and brings you original and exclusive productions from our talented contributors.
What If Dad Had Lived?
Adam Clymer is a former Chief Washington Correspondent of the New York Times and author of Edward M. Kennedy: A Biography.
