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...SHIRIN EBADI by Scott MacLeod...
...GALLIANO: ERIC RYAN--GETTY IMAGES; GIBSON: SAM JONES--CORBIS OUTLINE; KAUFMAN: SEAN GALLUP--GETTY IMAGES; MANDELA: PETER TURNLEY--CORBIS; BUSH: BROOKS KRAFT; ANNAN: WILLIAM COUPON--CORBIS OUTLINE; NAKATA: PHILIPP HOHNDORF--STARFACE/RETNA; SISTANI: HO; ABIZAID: AFP--GETTY IMAGES; ADRIA: RAPHO; OPRAH: FRAZER HARRISON--GETTY IMAGES; BURNETT: STEPHEN CHERNIN--GETTY IMAGES; EBADI: BEHROUZ MEHRI--AFP/GETTY IMAGES; PUTIN: MAXIM MARMUR--AFP/GETTY IMAGES; GOOGLE GUYS: FERGUS GREER--ICON INT.; WOODS: STEPHEN DUNN--GETTY IMAGES, STRONACH: ED GAJDEL; SCHWARZENEGGER: SAM JONES--CORBIS OUTLINE...
Some of her admirers in Iran call her a woman of steel. Sure, the Iranian human rights champion also has a heart of gold. But it is Shirin Ebadi's unbending will that explains how she has become the conscience of the Islamic Republic...
Years before reformers like President Mohammed Khatami started talking about political freedom, Ebadi, 56, was demanding fundamental rights from an Islamic regime that systematically violated them. Her Nobel Peace Prize in 2003 gave Ebadi even greater moral authority inside Iran, injecting fresh hope into a pro-democracy movement that has suffered escalating repression at the hands of the mullahs. She refuses to be pessimistic. "When you are hopeless," she says, "you are at a dead...
...would have voted if I knew and trusted the candidates." Shirin Ebadi, Iranian Nobel Peace Prize laureate, criticizing the government's barring of more than 2,000 candidates from parliamentary elections...