[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 134 (Friday, October 11, 2002)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1826]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         DANIEL PEARL MUSIC DAY

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                         HON. HOWARD L. BERMAN

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                       Thursday, October 10, 2002

  Mr. BERMAN. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to join musicians, artists and 
performers across America and around the world in saluting the life of 
Daniel Pearl and recognizing October 10, 2002--the day he would have 
celebrated his 39th birthday--as Daniel Pearl Music Day.
  Musicians worldwide, including Itzhak Perlman; the Jerusalem Symphony 
Orchestra; Junoon, the number one rock band from Pakistan, and numerous 
others have joined this tribute, which will use the universal language 
of music to spread a message of tolerance, humanity, friendship and 
global cooperation. Communities from Los Angeles, Hong Kong, 
Washington, Paris, and Tel Aviv to Mumbai, Goa, Bangkok and Beijing 
will all celebrate Daniel Pearl's message of world harmony.
  Daniel, a talented violinist, fiddler and mandolin player, joined a 
band, orchestra or chamber group in every community in which he lived. 
Through music, he made friends out of strangers of all cultures.
  A Princeton, New Jersey native, Daniel Pearl graduated from Stanford 
University with a BA in Communications. He began his career in 
journalism in the late 1980's and won an American Planning Association 
Award for a five-part series on land use. He joined the Wall Street 
Journal as a reporter in 1990 in Atlanta and moved to Washington, DC. 
He then moved to London, then to Paris and finally to Bombay where he 
was named South Asia bureau chief. He was an accomplished journalist 
with an uncanny ability to uncover wrongdoing while never losing sight 
of the humanity behind the news.
  The extraordinary life of Daniel Pearl, a devoted son, a loving 
husband, a caring father and a loyal friend was tragically interrupted 
when he was kidnapped and brutally murdered by Islamic extremists in 
Pakistan while investigating a story for the Wall Street Journal.
  In the spirit of Daniel Pearl's love of music and commitment to 
dialogue, I ask my colleagues to join me in recognizing October 10, 
2002 as Daniel Pearl Music Day.

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