One year they picked some African woman who planted a bunch of trees.
They could have picked Rachel Corrie for getting run over by a bulldozer. That kid only got shot in the head, and Corrie bit the big one. Why not pick her would-be assassin for his bad aim? He could say that he just didn’t have the heart to kill her until her boobs were fully developed, and that would count as saving a little kid from a death squad. They could have picked some Arab Spring bozo. They might have picked a Syrian opposition leader; that would be naive and premature at the same time. Win/win.