Posted by DEAN SKIP RUTHERFORD – Former Vice President Al Gore, along with the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. Recognized for his strong advocacy of environmental concerns and in large part as a result of the Academy Award-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth, Gore becomes the first American to win or share this prestigious award since President Jimmy Carter in 2002. It’s a well deserved tribute to the former vice president. I’m sure Gore’s cousin, Mitchell Law Firm Attorney Ark Monroe and his family of Little Rock, are celebrating as well. They should be.
Speaking of Nobel Peace Prize recipients, special thanks to Elgin Clemmons and the Wright Lindsey Jennings Law Firm of Little Rock who have arranged for our Clinton School students to meet with Muhammad Yunus, the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize Winner, when he visits Little Rock next week. Yunus has been a champion of microcredit banking, which helps provide financing to those who are unable to receive it through traditional means. The time with Yunus represents a very special educational opportunity for our students who perform public service projects in impoverished areas all over the state, country and world.