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Fri, 11 Oct 2002 22:51:52 GMT

Carter wins Nobel Peace Prize

Only the third US President to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, after Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, Jimmy Carter had an imperfect presidency, followed by a lengthy career as an ambassador for peace on behalf of the United States. His political fortune rose in the aftermath of the two humiliating defeats for the US, the war in Vietnam, and the Watergate scandal and Ford's pardon of Nixon. Carter was the first presidential candidate I voted for. Like many others, I came to see him as a weak president, but in later years came to appreciate his values of honesty, hard work, and an uncompromising sense of what's right. It's unfortunate that his award was tainted by politics from the awarding committee, but the award stands on its own. As an American I am proud that Jimmy Carter, who represents what's good about my country, is this year's Nobel Laureate.

Fri, 11 Oct 2002 14:22:34 GMT

NY Times: "Former President Carter won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for his 'untiring effort' to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts and to advance democracy and human rights." BBC report.

Fri, 11 Oct 2002 22:51:34 GMT

White House biography of Jimmy Carter.

Fri, 11 Oct 2002 17:03:05 GMT

ABA Journal: "Ernest Svenson is a blawger."

Fri, 11 Oct 2002 15:40:23 GMT

Dan Shafer is looking for help displaying his RSS feed.

Fri, 11 Oct 2002 15:16:24 GMT

Mark Pilgrim has a new innovative use for RSS. He accumulates inbound pointers to specific articles on his site in an RSS 2.0 feed. It's so twisty it drives my mind crazy. In a few minutes this comment will appear in his feed.

Fri, 11 Oct 2002 21:11:01 GMT

Shane McChesney wrote about automatically generated RSS after reading a post by Paolo on that subject, in mid-June.

Fri, 11 Oct 2002 14:29:26 GMT

NY Times: "The Senate voted overwhelmingly early this morning to authorize President Bush to use force against Iraq, joining with the House in giving him a broad mandate to act against Saddam Hussein." I hope it's a bluff.

Fri, 11 Oct 2002 14:21:30 GMT

Wired: "Wired News looks a little bit different today. OK, it's a lot different."