Agim Loci, pictured, is an interesting guy. Most days, he's a gun-toting bodyguard for the Albanian Ministry of Justice, protecting ministers and foreign VIPs. But it's what he does in his spare time that is making a difference in Europe's second poorest country.
Loci is one of the leading coordinators for Albania's Committee for Nationwide Reconciliation, a nonprofit group that tries to broker piece between Albanian families caught in the murderous cycle of blood feuds, an ancient Albanian custom of "an eye for an eye" that has seen a resurgence in recent years.
I recently spent a day a day with Loci in and our the Albanian capital, Tirana. My profile of him appears today in The Christian Science Monitor.
In other publication news, a piece I wrote about Switzerland's battle with corporate hostile take overs appears this month in the magazine Focus Europe and should be online soon. It grew out of some reporting I did in Switzerland earlier this year for a long essay that appeared in Legal Week at the end of January.
Cheers.
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