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...heard her singing caught his ear. "Sing your fisherman song for my CD and I'll be in your book," he bargained. Seierstad sang for her interviews and forgot about the brief recording session until the song - featuring her heavily remixed warbling - rocketed up the Serbian charts. The fearless, seize-any-opportunity attitude that launched her short-lived pop career has made Seierstad, 33, perhaps the best-known journalist in Scandinavia. She has reported from such hot spots as Chechnya, Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq - picking up several languages and awards along the way. She covered the war in Iraq...
DIED. Sergio Vieira de Mello, 55, fearless and elegant U.N. representative in Iraq, who promoted peace and nation building in such war-torn countries as East Timor, Kosovo and Cambodia; in the suicide bombing that struck U.N. headquarters, killing 23 and injuring 100; in Baghdad. After a 34-year diplomatic career, the Brazilian diplomat was seen as a possible candidate for the U.N.'s top job. "I can think of no one we could less afford to spare," eulogized U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan. De Mello survived the initial blast and was heard calling from the building's debris...
Fear Itself is subtitled A Fearless Jones Novel, but the narrator-hero is actually a brainy and somewhat wimpy bookstore owner named Paris Minton. "I'm a small man," he tells us. "I've been chased, caught, and beaten by big-boned women." Fearless Jones, it turns out, is Paris' best friend and polar opposite: superhumanly strong, infernally lucky, ridiculously handsome and very, very good at beating people up. You might say Paris plays Watson to Fearless's Sherlock Holmes, if Holmes had been a jock instead of a nerd...
...Fearless Jones novels share the same richly atmospheric setting as Walter Mosley's Easy Rawlins series: black Los Angeles in the pre--civil rights 1950s, a sweltering fever dream of boardinghouses and all-black bars built on the frayed fringes of Raymond Chandlerville. Of course, Mosley is better known for Rawlins, but in many ways the Fearless Jones books make better reading: they're lighter on their feet, funnier and and quicker paced. At the beginning of Fear Itself, Fearless turns up on Paris' doorstep with a tale of woe involving a missing business partner, a mysterious woman, detectives...
...will live as long as there is a Guatemala, a Sicily or a Burma to be drawn toward. But when he moved on, a certain way of seeing the world (with affection, wit and style), and a certain way of describing it (with unflappable wryness) moved on too. The fearless elegist of Southeast Asia had given us indelible portraits of a world that is already as far away as the last emperor...