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NEWS
2001 Nobel Prizes Awarded
by Yated Ne'eman Staff
The 100th Nobel prize for peace went to both the United
Nations and Secretary General Kofi Annan, who was credited
with bringing new life to the organization. U.N. officials
noted that the decision on the award was made on Sept. 28,
when the attacks must have been on the minds of the jurors.
The literature prize went to V. S. Naipaul, a Briton of
Indian ancestry born in Trinidad, whose writing is sometimes
critical of Muslim fundamentalism.
The economics award celebrated imperfection. Joseph E.
Stiglitz of Columbia University, George A. Akerlof of
University of Carlifornia at Berkeley and A. Michael Spence
of Stanford University shared it for showing why markets,
thought to be efficient and all-knowing, repeatedly fall prey
to "imperfect information."
Nobels were also awarded in chemistry, medicine and physics.
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