NOBEL PEACE PRIZE 2003
I’d frankly never heard of Iranian human rights lawyer Shirin Ebadi before hearing this morning that she’d won this year’s prize.
Daniel Drezner thinks she’s a big upgrade over last year’s choice, Jimmy Carter. Greg Bair thinks so too, although he shares my general disdain for many of the recent winners.
NOBEL’S PORTENT
This year’s Nobel Peace Prize winner: an Iranian female lawyer: A small model of the Statue of Liberty once sat on the desk in the Tehran law office of Shirin Ebadi, the winner of the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize. But…
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