(The widow of Daniel Pearl) "says, the Wall Street Journal gave her $10,000 toward legal fees. The lawyer she'd hired, a Pakistani national, charged $70,000.
"They told me to trust the Pakistani justice system," Mariane says of the Journal. "That's a joke."
"I was basically left alone [by the Journal]. The first worry was, 'How are we going to spend as little money as possible.' . . . Danny was so loyal to them. . . . It was pretty vulgar. And I'm not a venal person..."
Mariane Pearl's Determined Heart
Am I crazy or is this disgusting? And yet here is a profile in courage nevertheless. MG+
"By killing Danny, they were trying to take life out of you," says Mariane Pearl. ". . . I made a decision really early to live, not like a ghost in my own life." (Juana Arias -- The Washington Post)
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