"It's a good moment for chimps, a very good moment," said Dr. Frans de Waal, a Yerkes primatologist who is on the board of Chimp Haven, the organization that received the contract for the sanctuary.
The new caretaker is a positive step, says Linda Brent, president of Chimp Haven, an organization in San Antonio, Texas, that hopes to build retirement sanctuaries for former research chimpanzees.
Would he be willing to say anything about the future of the government of Syria, which may be the world's leading haven for terrorist organizations, since it openly plays host to Islamic Jihad, in Damascus, and Hezbollah, in Lebanon?
New Haven is taxing an organization that provides emergency and transitional shelter for women and children, Hartford is taxing an organization that runs a halfway house, a substance abuse rehabilitation center is being taxed in Windham and Bridgeport has sent tax bills to several nonprofits.
The same day I headed with my boyfriend, Seamus, to Animal Haven, a rescue animal organization in Lower Manhattan.
Call the organization a "haven of hypocrites" or "humanity's best hope," tote up its many miseries and few glories.
From 1915 until 1968, its green light shone from the top of the Seamen's Church Institute, a haven, hostel and advocacy organization for sailors coming through the port.
He furnished an interim haven for the rootless organization at the Center for New York City Law, of which he is the founding director.
This broader campaign, which goes far beyond a focused fight against Al Qaeda, is based on the goal of assuring that Afghanistan would never again become a safe haven for the terror organization.
"Jazz was kind of dying," said Mr. Hameen, 67, who played a big part in the revival with his participation in Jazz Haven, a community-based organization that produced this year's festival.
It was here, in Afghanistan, where Osama bin Laden established a safe-haven for his terrorist organization.
