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Article: Project Pearl: the bravest class in town: will a dogged grouped of college students in D.C. solve the grisly murder of journalist Danny Pearl before the FBI does?(EXCLUSIVE)
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- Marie Claire
- Article date:
- September 1, 2008
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JESSICA RETTIG, a 20-year-old journalism student wearing a bright blue cotton sundress and flip-flops, is sitting in her professor's office at Georgetown University, dialing a number in Pakistan. She's hoping to interview a man with possible ties to terrorists.
The man answers the phone and says he'd be glad to talk, but asks: Could they do it by e-marl instead? Rettig takes down his e-mail address, hangs up the phone, and sends him a quick note. Almost immediately it bounces back: address unknown. The e-mail is a fake.
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It's a hard lesson--one of many--in what might be the toughest class in ...