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...hope one of them has this fight on along with the Celtics game. Manny Pacquiao, the pride of the Phillipines, is currently considered the best pound-for-pound boxer in the game right now, after his victories over Oscar "Golden Boy" De La Hoya and arch rival Juan Manuel Marquez. The underdog in this fight, Ricky Hatton, pride of Britain, has endured legions of fans with his brawler-style and charisma in the ring. He's been a rising star in boxing, but needs to prove he's more than just a fluke after being absolutely obliterated by previous pound...

Author: By Aparicio J. Davis | Title: Park Yourself in Front of a TV | 5/2/2009 | See Source »

...Czech author may have reported a Western spy to the local authorities. The man, whose reputation is in shambles after a report released last week, is Milan Kundera who, according to a 1985 New York Times article, did for Eastern Europe “what Gabriel Garcia Marquez did for Latin America in the 1960’s and Alexander Solzhenitsyn did for Russia in the 1970?...

Author: By Jan Zilinsky | Title: The Fall of Kaavya and Kundera | 10/20/2008 | See Source »

Aside from being a ferocious fighter, Marulanda also loved to dance and reportedly sired several children around the country. Like Colonel Aureliano Buendia (who himself sired 17 sons by 17 different women) in the novel One Hundred Years of Solitude by Colombia's Nobel laureate, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Marulanda was a legendary rebel warrior. And like the fictional Buendia, Marulanda died of natural causes in old age as an enigma. In Garcia Marquez's classic, a character wonders if the colonel "had fought so many wars not out of idealism, as everyone had thought," but rather...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Colombia's Rebel Patriarch Is Dead | 5/25/2008 | See Source »

...going to wait for the teams to reach the area to confirm if the plane is effectively in the zone and in what conditions it was found," Marquez said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Plane Missing in Venezuela | 2/22/2008 | See Source »

...Noel Marquez, director of Venezuela's emergency management agency in Merida, said rescue teams were on their way to the mountains, some more than 16,000 feet above sea level...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Plane Missing in Venezuela | 2/22/2008 | See Source »

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