For it was on a hot summer’s day in 1505 that a twenty-one-year-old university student in Germany found himself unexpectedly caught in a similar storm while on the open road from his home back to school. And, as his classical biographer, Roland Bainton, long ago wrote, in a single ...
Pearl has worked for The Wall Street Journal for 12 years and is now their South Asia bureau chief. He was born in Princeton, New Jersey and graduated form Stanford University with a bachelor’s degree in communications. He joined The Wall Street Journal in November 1990, first as a reporte...