Professor Judea Pearl, an internationally recognized authority on machine intelligence, has discovered a great deal about human emotion — both private and public — since his son, journalist Daniel Pearl, was murdered by Islamic extremists in Pakistan eight months ago.
During the lamest duck days of his presidency, Bill Clinton hustled to cobble together a series of under-the-wire executive orders and pardons, but he was unable to secure The Grand Prize: a comprehensive peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinian Authority.
There is, of course, the thriving Skirball Cultural Center in theSepulveda Pass. And the American Jewish Committee\’s SkirballInstitute on American Values. And the Skirball ArchaeologicalBuilding and Skirball Museum on the Hebrew Union College campus inJerusalem. And the Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine at NewYork University.\n\nThere is also the Skirball Film Archive Fund at UCLA.
As the son of Holocaust survivors, Adi Liberman grew up, as many second-generation children did, with a sense of profound loss. He knew that he had no grandparents, that his mother, a hidden child during the war, had lost her parents at age 5, and that his father\’s father died before the war and his father\’s mother in Auschwitz.
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