This Just In...

Iranian activist wins Nobel prize. The committee's decision to give the award to Shirin Ebadi, only the 11th woman ever to receive the Peace Prize, is something of a surprise, but not entirely: Ebadi seems, from what I've read of her, as deserving a candidate as any other I'd heard bandied about, but her win seems (appropriately) like a dynamite stick thrown into the heart of the struggle of the moderates in Iran. I wonder if it will make a difference.