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...their lives to cover extreme situations in faraway places and report the truth, and the best in the room will get a gleam in their eyes - a little ignition of trench-coat wanderlust, their minds flickering in black and white for a moment, a few frames of '30s movies. Daniel Pearl, I gather, had the gleam. A sheer avidity to know things is the most endearing trait of any journalist. Long ago, the novelist and journalist John Hersey wrote in a sketch of Henry Luce, "He was amazed and delighted to learn whatever he had not known before." Curiosity...
...polar opposite of Daniel Pearl's intellectual curiosity was the sort of dogmatism that took his life. An ideologue with a closed mind killed a splendid young man with an open mind. Not the first time that the desire to know has been murdered by the need not to know. Half the world belongs to candlesnuffers - to people who have no curiosity to find out, so to speak, how to take off or land...
PAKISTAN Death of a Journalist The U.S. State Department announced it had video evidence that kidnapped U.S. journalist Daniel Pearl had been murdered. Pakistan's President Musharraf vowed to hunt down his killers. President Bush said such crimes strengthened U.S. resolve to fight terrorism. Earlier in the week the Administration adopted a new policy on U.S. citizens kidnapped overseas, allowing for direct intervention. Pearl was abducted Jan. 23 in Karachi by a group calling itself the National Movement for the Restoration of Pakistani Sovereignty...
...feel entirely alone in this incessant NBC-watching. Given that Harvard is well, Harvard, we now go to school with Olympic medallists in women’s ice hockey and speed-skating. So it wasn’t unexpected when a twenty-first birthday party was interrupted by Daniel Weinstein ’03-’04 competing in the short-track speed skating race. I did find it a little odd that despite my never having set foot on an ice skating rink or anything more difficult than a green square mountain, I’ve been this...
...Daniel Mejia, a janitor and president of the Harvard Workers’ Center spoke in Spanish—with a student translating his comments into English—about difficulties he and his coworkers face...