1.   But the awards committee still snookered the Norway paper, Aftenpost, that broke the news by adding in Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres.

2.   However, the tight lips of the awards committee this year has spawned a cottage industry for Spin Doctors International.

3.   Saunders and his colleague objected, saying they had made the discovery, but the awards committee stood firm.

4.   Still, the awards committee frowns on that kind of thing from mere newspapers.

5.   The award committee included Henry A. Kissinger and Klaus Schwab, the founder of the World Economic Forum.

6.   The award committee has displayed its own brand of courage.

7.   The awards committee is flooded each year by nominations, many of them invalid because they were made by people without nominating rights.

8.   The more select Avery Fisher Prize is awarded only when an executive awards committee agrees upon a musician who merits it.

9.   The notebooks were mailed to national and local media members, voters on award committees and others with college football ties.

10.   The Swedish award committees are also cautious to a degree, having been burned in the past by hailing hot discoveries that later turned out to be wrong.