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.
这是马拉喀什一个阳光明媚的下午。对于一个因行动主义和自由主义世界观而天天受到攻击的人来说,乔治•索罗斯(George Soros)显得异常愉快。他刚访问过南非,那是他在1970年代后期进行首次慈善活动的地方。当时,他资助了受到种族隔离的黑人学生。这一次,他了解到,索罗斯支持的调查媒体和公民社会团体帮助挫败了一项与俄罗斯签订的、涉嫌腐败的核电站合同。