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Still, I think I would rather have dinner--in Belgrade or Islamabad or Jerusalem--with people like Daniel Pearl than with either the faculty of Harvard University or the first 100 names in the Boston telephone book. Why? It's their knowledgeable, companionable talk, the stories that their curiosity has unearthed and accumulated--their confidence that the world is a fascinating place and that journalism, though it may sometimes be wrongheaded or squalid, is also critically important and, quite often, a huge amount of fun. Correspondents like Pearl are the true students of the world's diversity (as opposed...
...Daniel Pearl, it is said, did not take stupid chances. But the world, as we see, sometimes has horrible surprises...
...symbiotic solution: send reality TV to war. Last week ABC announced Profiles from the Front Line, from producer Jerry Bruckheimer (Pearl Harbor, Black Hawk Down) and reality-TV wiz Bertram van Munster (Cops, The Amazing Race). The reality series, to air as soon as this summer, intends to tell the personal stories of soldiers in Afghanistan, the Philippines and beyond. On VH1's tentatively-titled Military Diaries (also aimed for summer), more than 60 soldiers with cameras will record their days and talk about how music helps them cope. (As Apocalypse Now taught us, rockin' tunes are integral to modern...
Person of the Week IN THE LINE OF DUTYThe media world was saddened and outraged by the news that kidnapped Wall Street Journal reporter Danny Pearl was killed by his radical captors in Pakistan. U.S. President George W. Bush said Pearl's death will only strengthen Washington's resolve against terror...
...Zhao became an overnight sensation in greater China thanks to Princess Pearl, a popular Taiwanese TV show. Three months ago, a fashion magazine printed a photo of Zhao in a dress with a Japanese wartime flag on it. Big trouble in rather large China. After that, she was attacked during a singing performance in China. Zhao publicly apologized a week later; it's a strange world we live in when a starlet starts a cultural war. "My generation doesn't know much about the war. This serves as a lesson," she says, "Let's bury the hatchet and let bygones...