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Pearl's of wisdom - Articles by Daniel Pearl 
Portrait of Daniel Pearl commissioned for the Friends Of Danny festival
by Kim Do
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AUGUST 1986 NORTH ADAMS TRANSCRIPT - Imagine, please, being stuck in a huge flaw in the system.
I mean a crack 30 feet deep, so narrow that nobody will admit it's there.
Now imagine being freed from the crack, and by a fluke coming face to face with the man who
helped put you there. Read the whole article Going to the top won't get you to bottom of bureaucracy
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JUNE 2000 - THE WALL STREET
JOURNAL
In a basement studio here, Iranian pop singer Alireza
Assar and his crew are mixing their latest rock ballad. Mr. Assar's strong
solo voice rings out in Farsi, singing, "We should find love in the rain."
As the music swells, an electric guitar begins to wail, and women's voices
take up the song.
If Iran's political hard-liners ever heard this, there'd be hell to pay,
right? Read the whole article Rock Rolls Once More in Iran As Hard-Liners Back Pop Revival ______________________ MAY 1986 - THE WALL STREET
JOURNAL American blues can make you sad. Russian work songs can
make you suffer. The fervent belief of many in the Persian Gulf is that
pearl-diving songs can make you go blind.
The songs are undergoing a revival, a half-century after crowded pearl
boats plied the shallow Gulf waters for the last time. As a new generation
in the Gulf rediscovers the wailing old spirituals, they are also
rediscovering the special pain of singing them. Read the whole article These Songs Bring Tears To Your Eyes, Or Something Worse ______________________
OCTOBER 1994 - THE WALL STREET
JOURNAL David Margetts still doesn't know if he left the borrowed
Stradivarius on the roof of his car and drove off, or if it was stolen from
the unlocked vehicle while he bought groceries.
That was in August 1967. Mr. Margetts, then a second violinist with a
string quartet at the University of California at Los Angeles, sent notices
to pawn shops and violin stores and took out classified ads. He spent the
next 27 years worrying that the "Duke of Alcantara" Stradivarius, made in
1732, was gone forever.
Read the whole article
Stradivarius Violin, Lost Years Ago, Resurfaces but New Owner Plays Coy
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