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...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...
...alarming fact you'll learn from songstress SHAKIRA'S new DVD documentary, Shakira Live and Off the Record, is that belly dancing causes tendinitis. Another is that she's chummy with Nobel-prizewinning novelist and fellow Colombian GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ, who, in the film, visits Shakira backstage in Mexico City, where he lives. In the movie Shakira describes the author as "one of those people who will never die, for sure not in my heart." The two met in 1999 when Garcia Marquez interviewed Shakira for a magazine, a planned one-hour chat that lasted five. Comparing navel rings perhaps...
...common is that just about every profile is a carefully constructed artifice, a kind of pixelated Platonic ideal of our messy, all-too organic real-life selves who don’t have perfect hair and don’t spend their weekends snuggling up with the latest Garcia Marquez. There’s little wonder why Harvard students, in particular, find the opportunity to fashion an online persona such a tantalizing prospect. Most of us spent our high school careers building resumes so padded they’d hold their own in a sumo match, an experience which culminated...
...magazine?s roster of contributors was as distinguished as any in English-language journalism. Vladimir Nabokov, John Cheever, John Updike, Irwin Shaw, William Styron, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and such cartoonists as Dedini, Barsotti, Kliban: they could be the front table at a New Yorker banquet. Skeptics suspected that Hefner got the second-best from the best, or work the New Yorker had rejected, and that Playboy settled for B material from the A team in order to appropriate their literary celebrity. Some folks in publishing had a dismissive term for Playboy fiction: ?shit from names...
...early schooling, his sexual initiation and maybe a few too many of his schoolmates--Garcia Marquez sets them all down. Eventually he travels to Bogota to pursue studies in law. But it's too late. His passion for words overtakes him. So does the bloody history of his country. By the book's end, he is becoming the man whose gifts will subdue that history and turn its pain into even further magic...