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...couldn't resist the voices. " Mijailo Mijailovic, 25, a Swede born to Serbian parents, who allegedly confessed to the killing of Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 1/19/2004 | See Source »

...Viera, Juventus' Edgar Davids and Inter Milan's Christian Vieri - Chelsea has only snapped up a few B-listers at wildly inflated prices. Twenty-four million euros for Blackburn Rovers' Damien Duff? Now there's a deal that should be raising questions. - With reporting by Yuri Zarakhovich/Moscow Finding the Swede Spot It's hard to believe that only a year ago Carolina Kluft, currently the world's leading heptathlete, was competing as a junior (admittedly, the world's top junior). Two weeks ago the bubbly 20-year-old Swede graduated to an even higher plane, as she accepted a special...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sports Watch | 7/27/2003 | See Source »

...Ultimately, Dyer is so enamored of his own decline that he cannot be bothered to get on with his rebirth. Perhaps that's as it should be. In an early chapter, he meets a vacationing Swede who has had a dead baby shoved in his face by an Indian beggar. "We were all horrified and, I think, more than a little envious," he writes. "All visitors to the developing world, if they are honest, will confess that they are actually quite keen on seeing a bit of squalor." And readers, if they are honest, will confess that they are more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Searching for the Zone | 6/23/2003 | See Source »

...couldn't have practiced for what followed. Suddenly Annika the Silent Swede had to be Annika the Swedish Celebrity, giving interview after interview, making public appearances and smiling for photos until it hurt. "I freaked out. I was so mentally tired," she says. "I said, 'I'm not here to show up like a Barbie doll...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Annika's Driving Ambition | 5/26/2003 | See Source »

...model train-enthusiast husband asks Mitch whether or not he likes trains, Mitch replies, perplexed as always, “I took the bus.” But more often than not, the jokes are tired or run thin very quickly. Ed Begley, Jr. plays a Swede with deep Jewish roots, an idea that is only half-baked but is awkwardly employed several times. Even more unsettling is the uneven tone set by the relationship between Mitch and Mickey. While their genuine romantic tension is carefully developed, it is far too out of place in a comedy of this nature...

Author: By Ben B. Chung, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Film Review: A Mighty Wind | 4/11/2003 | See Source »

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