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Initially, he focused his philanthropic speculation on Central and Eastern Europe. A survivor of the Holocaust and communism, he spread hundreds of millions of dollars to support democracy in countries struggling to break from the old Soviet orbit. In the waning years of the cold war, he bought photocopiers for his native Hungary so the communists couldn't monopolize information. Later, with Russia adrift, he spent $100 million to help Soviet science, and scientists, survive the transition. In Yugoslavia he was outraged by what he perceived to be the pusillanimity of the West, so he doled out $50 million...
...drug policy is insane. And no politician can stand up and say what I'm saying, because it's the third rail ? instant electrocution," says the multi-billionaire and Holocaust survivor, who added that he feels obliged to speak out when the world will listen. "I'm in a unique position," says Soros. "Therefore I have to do these things...
...best-selling 1974 novel Jaws and the Steven Spielberg movie that followed for the shark's fearsome reputation as a mindless, relentless, consummate predator. The truth is that people have always been terrified by sharks, probably since humans first ventured into the sea. Who can blame them? As any survivor or witness well knows, a shark attack, especially by one of the larger species considered man-eaters--great whites, bull sharks, tiger sharks--is mind-numbing in its speed, violence, gore and devastation...
...author follows his characters with care and a measure of affection, and so does the reader. Lennon does not condescend, or marvel at what fools these mortals be. He lets the single survivor of the crash, an old Italian storekeeper named Bernardo, reunite with his American son after a period of walking around dazed and frightened. But what his narration says is roughly this: Most lives are tolerable but fairly dull, a bit confused, and very unlikely to change. Glorious messenger does not come riding, alas. Or so Lennon sees things now. He is quite convincing, and probably right...
...with Stewart in The Flight of the Phoenix (1966): "He said that he just did not want to live anymore." He withdrew into himself, built a moat around the castle of his isolation. He fed on memories of Gloria--so painful because they were so sweet--and on the survivor's inevitable feelings of loss and guilt...