PEACE PRIZE
Confounding the Vatican's buzz, the Nobel Peace Prize Iranian activist wins peace Nobel has gone to Shirin Ebadi, an Iranian human rights activist. From the MSNBC report:
"AS A LAWYER, judge, lecturer, writer and activist, she has spoken out clearly and strongly in her country, Iran, far beyond its borders," the Norwegian Nobel Committee said in its citation.
It said she has stood up as a "sound professional, a courageous person, and has never heeded the threat to her own safety."
"She sees no contradiction between Islam and fundamental human rights," the head of the committee Ole Danbold Mjoes said in the prize citations.