Read the excerpt from the introduction to A State of War and Peace.Despite the secrecy behind the selection process and a tradition of keeping the list of nominees from being disclosed for fifty years, I believe there is logic to how the winners are chosen. I hope to arrive at an understanding of the method behind the madness used to sift through thousands of the world's highest achievers year after year.
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an argument as to why the prize should be discontinuedB
predictions for who will win the prize for the next fifty yearsC
the criteria the committee uses to create a list of nomineesD
a list of people who have been nominated in recent years