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...screen" before the Saudis arrested him, developed a deep interest in him once they did but also had trouble lining up sufficient evidence. Finally, Abu Ali's family filed a civil suit last summer to get him returned to the U.S., forcing the Justice Department's hand. The Saudis, eager to avoid the p.r. nightmare of putting an American citizen on trial for terrorism, were relieved to hustle Abu Ali aboard an FBI flight to Washington. Now it was the U.S. that faced a deadline to indict...
...thought, Someone has invented something just for me," recalls Dar, founder of Action Without Borders. The selfishness, however, was in service only to the most charitable of pursuits. The Israeli-born Dar, 44, had been looking for a way to connect nonprofit organizations from around the globe to volunteers eager to donate their time. "I was obsessed with the notion that you have a world rife with problems," says Dar, "but you also have ideas and resources and people with free time and good intentions, and there had to be a way to bring these things together...
Action Without Borders launched its website, idealist.org in 1996. Today 45,000 nonprofit and charitable organizations worldwide are registered on the site, which is translated into English, French and Spanish. It gets 35,000 visitors a day, primarily from young volunteers eager to go anywhere from Mississippi to Uganda. The group also organizes conferences and nonprofit-career workshops. The site is free, and users can browse opportunities by location or mission. Dar says any organization can register, with a few exceptions: "No violence, no illegal action, no rules against people based on who they are. In short, no hate...
...this quiet Black Forest town, Wohlfahrt may have the answer. Baiersbronn has been a stronghold of haute cuisine "ever since 1980, when Traube Tonbach's owner, Willi Finkbeiner, decided the place needed a French-style eatery," he remembers. Wohlfahrt's menu turned the restaurant into an immediate hit. Eager to compete, other local chefs stepped up their culinary efforts, and an influx of new talent followed. So if you want to live like God in France, as the popular German expression about great wining and dining goes, there's no need to go to Paris. Just go to Baiersbronn...
...history also takes Imperial Reckoning off-track. In an attempt to help her non-academic audience understand the Mau Mau, she uses tropes like “Nazism” for comparison’s sake and drops the word “genocide” numerous times. Eager to make this relatively unknown episode seem relevant to book-buying audiences, she has avoided using “Mau Mau” in her work’s title. Instead, she gives the out-of-context label “gulag” to the British labor camps used...