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Elizabeth
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Today would have been Daniel Pearl's forty-third birthday.

He was a Wall Street Journal reporter who was murdered in Pakistan after 9/11, as he was investigating the story of the shoe bomber.

His is a pretty incredible story, and I have come to know it much better in the last week, though I remember the event well when it happened.

If you get a chance, and have HBO, there is a special documentary which is quite well done, which we just finished watching.

So, celebrate a special life today by, well, listening to music, and trying to get to know someone better whom you might not understand. That was pretty much his mission in his rather short life.

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I heard his father on NPR this morning with a Musliim man he travels around the country with doing dialogs about peace between Muslims and Jews.

It was pretty impressive.

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Yes, Bob, his parents have turned his death into a mission of peace and understanding between Jews and Muslims. They are incredible people. They set up a foun dation for him, the Daniel Pearl Foundation.

http://www.danielpearl.org/

"The Daniel Pearl Foundation was formed in memory of journalist Daniel Pearl to further the ideals that inspired Daniel's life and work. The foundation's mission is to promote cross-cultural understanding through journalism, music, and innovative communications."

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