Bono’s noble work gets Nobel Prize nomination

BONO has been nominated for the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize, it emerged yesterday.

Bono’s noble work gets Nobel Prize nomination
Wed, 19 Feb, 2003 - 00:00
Alister Doyle, Oslo

It is the second year in a row that the U2 singer has been nominated.

He is running against French president Jacques Chirac, the governor of the US state of Illinois who spared all inmates on death row, Pope John Paul II and a Cuban dissident.

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