For a man facing daily attacks for his activism and liberal vision of the world, George Soros was in a curiously buoyant mood on a sunswept afternoon in Marrakesh. He had just visited South Africa, home to his first philanthropic foray in the late 1970s, when he funded black students under apartheid. This time he learnt that Soros-backed investigative media and civil society groups had helped thwart an allegedly corrupt nuclear power plant contract with Russia.
這是馬拉喀什一個陽光明媚的下午。對於一個因行動主義和自由主義世界觀而天天受到攻擊的人來說,喬治•索羅斯(George Soros)顯得異常愉快。他剛訪問過南非,那是他在1970年代後期進行首次慈善活動的地方。當時,他資助了受到種族隔離的黑人學生。這一次,他了解到,索羅斯支持的調查媒體和公民社會團體幫助挫敗了一項與俄羅斯簽訂的、涉嫌腐敗的核電站合同。