The first paperback printed in the U.S. was an edition of The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck printed by Pocket Books in 1938.
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She raised seven adopted children and wrote many later works at her farm in suburban Bucks County, where she's buried and where her namesake nonprofit, Pearl S. Buck International, is based.
The court ruling was welcomed by Pearl's family through a statement on their Web site which thanked Pakistani and U.S. authorities for their "tireless efforts" to bring Pearl's attackers to justice.
Saeed is one of 11 suspects on the prosecution's charge sheet in Pearl's kidnapping and death.
There's a good reason: Of Pearl's 530 investors, 25% are family and friends (additionally, McDonald has 11% and Knoll, 8.3%).
At the time, though, it wasn't published in the U.S., so I couldn't include it in Pearl's Picks.
U.S. officials said they were examining a videotape said to show Pearl's slaying, trying to determine when the reporter was killed and looking for clues that could lead to finding his killers.
According to a defence attorney Khawaja Naveed, the two officers said Omar Sheikh had said he had masterminded Mr Pearl's abduction, that he would not defend himself and that Mr Pearl was dead.
"Today's verdict is the first chapter in this process, " the statement from Pearl's parents, wife, and sisters said.
Pakistani newspapers Saturday repeated their condemnation of Pearl's slaying and the government's vow to track down the reporter's killers.
The show opened Sunday night for a brief run at the Pearl's new permanent home on far West 42nd Street.
Soon after Pearl disappeared, a search recovered the body of a white male that turned out not to be Pearl's.
Thursday is not the first time Pakistani police have said they had found a body they believed to be Pearl's.
Business at the Pearl's Western-style restaurants has plummeted since the alcohol suspension.
But many locals believe the open consumption of alcohol on the Pearl's restaurants, and cases of drunken revelry among foreigners, offended some Qataris.
Pearl's widow, Mariane, released a two-page letter Friday thanking the world for the outpouring of support during the monthlong ordeal of her husband's abduction.
Sullivan creates a period atmosphere of breezy charm in the winsome production, which features several members of the Pearl's resident acting company who are expert at insouciant, perceptive farce.
Mr. Pearl's parents, Ruth and Judea, welcomed the development.
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Pearl's head office at Peterborough is expected to bear the brunt of the job losses, but the firm said the cuts would be spread across the UK, including offices in London, Tunbridge Wells, Cardiff and Bristol.
The director, Michael Winterbottom, working from a script by John Orloff, has turned Mariane Pearl's memoir into a relentlessly intense drama about the search for her husband, as well as her search for meaning in his death.
Several U.S. officials said FBI investigators on the ground in Pakistan are furiously working with local authorities and "pursuing every lead" -- including closely evaluating the three previous e-mails, which they hope can lead them to Pearl's kidnappers.
Other U.S. officials say there are reasons for skepticism about the e-mail, noting that it is unlike some of the previous messages from Pearl's kidnappers, in which photographs were included to prove the senders were in fact holding him.
Officials concede they are refraining from offering a preliminary or cursory analysis of the e-mail because they are "trying not to excite Pearl's family, friends and colleagues" at The Wall Street Journal, where the 38-year-old Pearl works as a reporter.
"I think it's neat both for Pearl Jam and Target that they've made a deal like this that is going to include the corner record store, where so many of us fell in love with music like Pearl Jam's, " Jim DeRogatis says.
Randy Taraborrelli, Mama's Pearl was originally called Guess Who's Making Whoopie (With Your Girlfriend).
"I've never heard of them, " Rebecca Charles, owner of New York City's Pearl Oyster Bar, said of New Jersey's offerings.
Pink Floyd's lead singer Roger Waters also sang the praises of his 12-12-12 onstage partner, Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder.
They also wrote, produced and arranged the band's singles and Maybe Tomorrow and Mama's Pearl.
Some sophistos sashayed their way into trendy places like Portland's Pearl District, but many others looked to the charming smaller towns of the Willamette Valley and central Oregon.
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