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...three Mayan Indians from Belize appeared on his doorstep. Amadei, 53, an amiable Frenchman who is quick to connect, listened as the men told him of the poverty back in their home village of San Pablo. He stayed in touch and a few years later accepted an invitation to visit their families in Belize. "I came across little girls who had to carry water back and forth to the village all day, so they couldn't go to school," Amadei says. "I knew that as a civil engineer, there had to be something I could...
Many of your books are set in beautiful, descriptive settings, like Ireland. Do you always visit these places before writing? -Komal Mehta, Mumbai Sometimes. I always go in my head. With the Internet you can go anywhere and research anything. When I started writing, I had a 3- and a 6-year-old, and it was a little difficult [to say], "Sorry, kids, got to go! Here are the SpaghettiOs. [Put them] in the microwave, and you'll be fine...
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Another Iranian-American student backed out after sending me several articles about Iranian academics based in the U.S. who had been arrested on visits to Tehran. One such academic, Haleh Esfandiari, on a visit to her elderly mother, was detained for eight months and charged with crimes against “national security.” The student told me he feared the same fate and worried about what would become of his family if he ever expressed his views about Iran’s theocratic regime...
...French towns in 2005, there was one reason for jittery French observers to hold their breath. Just as there were signs of cooling tempers among rioting youths, French President Nicolas Sarkozy vowed that he planned to hunt them down and haul them to court. His first move was to visit police officers injured by rioters, promising "we'll find the shooters, and deploy whatever means that requires." "That's not something we can tolerate," Sarkozy continued. "It's got a name: attempted murder...