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Nobel Speech? C-

If, a week ago, one of my Intro to Peace Studies students had handed in the very speech given by President Obama in Norway, I would have given that student a C-.

What? He is charismatic, eloquent, measured, brilliant-how can a peace studies professor be so cynical, so arrogant, so hyperbolic?

Because.

Because

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