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Harvard Square Bestsellers Hardcover Fiction 1. The Lighthouse P.D. James 2. On Beauty Zadie Smith 3. The Rabbi’s Cat Joann Sfar 4. Memories of My Melancholy Whores Gabriel Garcia Marquez 5. The Sea John Banville 6. Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits Laila Lalami 7. Monologue of a Dog Wislawa Szymborska 8. Never Let Me Go Kazuo Ishiguro 9. Slow Man J.M. Coetzee 10. Trouble with Poetry Billy Collins Hardcover Nonfiction 1. Year of Magical Thinking Joan Didion 2. Team of Rivals Doris Kearns-Goodwin 3. Education of a Coach David Halberstam 4. The Lost Painting Jonathan Harr...
...were unusually reserved people and may have achieved far less if they'd been otherwise. "There's no question in my mind that T.S. Eliot would have qualified as one of the [shy] kids in our study," says Kagan. "Yet he also won a Nobel Prize." --Reported by Sandra Marquez/ Los Angeles, Mimi Murphy/ Rome, Sora Song/ New York and Cindy Waxer/ Toronto
...that if you are given an illegal order, it is your duty to disobey it." No matter what anyone else might call them, in their own minds, Hinzman, Anderson and their peers are still good soldiers, just following orders. --Reported by Steven Frank and Paul Gains/ Toronto and Sandra Marquez/ San Diego
...Tyrant's Novel was written, sagely, sinuously, under the spell of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Mario Vargas Llosa and their mad generalissimos. There is everywhere a whiff of Graham Greene, with his moral skirmishing in the gray areas. The current Iraq war is one of those. Keneally, who knows something about lies and hypocrisy, could have told you it would be. --By Richard Lacayo
...brilliant as Pacquiao's win over Barrera was, it's still just one night. To achieve lasting greatness, he'll have to repeat moments like that again and again. He could start on May 8, when he goes up against International Boxing Federation and WBC featherweight champion Juan Manuel Marquez, a tough, powerful counterpuncher. Though ranked as boxing's top featherweight, Pacquiao holds no title belts in the division - beating Marquez would make him the official champ and quiet any doubters who feel the Barrera fight was a one-off. Some question Pacquiao's readiness, however, whereas Marquez has apparently...