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From: Katie Roiphe|Posted Thursday, Feb. 21, 2002, at 6:04 PM ET

To: Dwight Garner

17: So Much Sympathy, Not Enough To Do With It
From: Katie Roiphe
16: Awful, Iconic Images
From: Dwight Garner
15: "What must all of the reporters in Pakistan be thinking?"
From: Katie Roiphe
14: The Ever-More-Human Wall Street Journal
From: Dwight Garner
13: Heartbreaking News
From: Katie Roiphe
12: The Clinton and Bush Administrations: Both Blinded by Hollywood's Lights
From: Katie Roiphe
11: Are There Macho Shots in Curling?
From: Dwight Garner
10: Bad News for Future Danny Pearls?
From: Katie Roiphe
9: Where Have All the Book Reviews Gone?
From: Dwight Garner
8: Opera Shake-Ups, Dr. Lewinsky, and the Narcotic Pleasure of Buying Books
From: Katie Roiphe

7: Fruit Leaves and Water Pipes
From: Dwight Garner
6: Radical Boredom and Cross-Dressing
From: Katie Roiphe
5: Palindromic Bliss
From: Dwight Garner
4: Justifying the Dirty Habit of Reading the New York Post
From: Katie Roiphe
3: Terrified of the Inevitable, Impending Sept. 11 Novels
From: Dwight Garner
2: Citywide Book Clubs, Chicken McNuggets, and the New "Multiethnic" Barbie
From: Katie Roiphe
1: The Curse of the Time Dividers
From: Dwight Garner

Dear Dwight,

I just heard the terrible news about Danny Pearl. Only on hearing about his death do I realize that I had somehow been thinking he was alive this whole time. The Wall Street Journal is now reporting that he may have been targeted, in part, because he was Jewish. I can't stop thinking about the fact that he didn't want to go into Afghanistan because it was too dangerous because he had a baby on the way. The whole thing is too awful for words.

Katie

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Dwight Garner is an editor at the New York Times Book Review. Katie Roiphe is the author of Still She Haunts Me.