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...FEAR ITSELF, by Walter Mosley (Little, Brown; 316 pages...
...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...
...laid to rest. The press called for the resignation of a spokesman for Prime Minister Tony Blair who suggested that Kelly was a Walter Mitty fantasist. Defense Secretary Geoff Hoon was criticized for going on holiday instead of attending the funeral. Wave of Protest ICELAND The government's announcement that it was to re-start whaling after a 14-year break met with protests from environmental groups, such as the World Wildlife Fund, and the tourist industry. The International Whaling Commission approved a plan to kill 38 minke whales for "scientific research"; the WWF charged that the plan is really...
...Candidates always do very well raising money in their home state,” said Maxine Isaacs, an adjunct lecturer in public policy at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG). Isaacs, who served as Walter Mondale’s press secretary in his 1984 bid for the White House, gave money to the presidential campaigns of Kerry and Gephardt between December 2002 and this...
DIED. CAROL MATTHAU, 78, gossipy memoirist and widow of actor Walter Matthau, whose friendships with the elite of New York City cafe society she wittily recounted in her 1992 book, Among the Porcupines; of a brain aneurysm; in New York City. Before her 41-year marriage to Matthau, she was twice wed to playwright William Saroyan. She had a long friendship with Truman Capote, who, she claimed, modeled the character of Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany's after...