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Saturday, December 03, 2016
 
Nobel secretary regrets Obama peace prize (Sep 2015)
Nobel secretary regrets Obama peace prize (Sep 2015)
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Awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to US President Barack Obama in 2009 failed to achieve what the committee hoped it would, its ex-secretary has said.

Geir Lundestad told the AP news agency that the committee hoped the award would strengthen Mr Obama.

Instead, the decision was met with criticism in the US. Many argued he had not had any impact worthy of the award.
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He also reveals that Mr Obama considered not going to pick up the award in Norway's capital, Oslo.

His staff enquired whether other winners had skipped the ceremony but found this has happened only on rare occasions, such as when dissidents were held back by their governments.

"In the White House they quickly realised that they needed to travel to Oslo," Mr Lundestad wrote.

Mr Lundestad served as the committee's influential, but non-voting, secretary from 1990 to 2015.

He has broken with the tradition of the secretive committee, whose members rarely discuss proceedings.
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http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-34277960
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-34277960

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AWS VP & Distinguished Engineer James Hamilton kick off re:Invent 2016 discussing AWS innovation at scale.
AWS VP & Distinguished Engineer James Hamilton kick off re:Invent 2016 discussing AWS innovation at scale.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyOAjFNPAbA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyOAjFNPAbA

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The New York Times risked legal trouble to publish Donald Trump’s tax return
The New York Times risked legal trouble to publish Donald Trump’s tax return
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Federal law makes it illegal to publish an unauthorized tax return or "return information":
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The Times published the first page of Trump's 1995 New York state resident income tax return, the first page of his New Jersey nonresident tax return and the first page of his Connecticut nonresident tax return.

Under New York law, it is unlawful [...] In New Jersey, [...] shall be guilty [...] Connecticut's law [...] appears not to apply to the Times.
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could also assert a First Amendment defense. In the case of the Pentagon Papers, for example, The Post argued that publication served an important public interest. But those arguments would not be sure winners, experts said.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/10/02/the-new-york-times-risked-legal-trouble-to-publish-donald-trumps-tax-return/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/10/02/the-new-york-times-risked-legal-trouble-to-publish-donald-trumps-tax-return

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