Bono and Bob Geldof nominated for Nobel Peace Prize
Rock stars Bono and Bob Geldof were nominated for the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize along with Indonesia’s president, a former U.S. secretary of state and a Finnish peacemaker.
That was the easy part.
Making the Norwegian award committee’s deeply secret shortlist, already whittled down from the 191 nominees, is another matter, the nonvoting secretary said Friday.
“It’s easy to get nominated, but very hard to win,” Geir Lundestad told The Associated Press in releasing the number he compiled and checked after the Feb. 1 deadline for mailing proposals.
He said the committee has started pruning the original field of 168 individuals and 23 organizations. That is the second highest number of nominations ever, behind last year’s 199.
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