Garcia Marquez Has Last Laugh on Book Pirates
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By Alistair Bell MEXICO CITY  - Latin American literary giantGabriel Garcia Marquez has unintentionally won the last laughon copyright pirates by changing the ending of his latest book,the Nobel laureate's first novel in 10 years.
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JK Rowling revealed how she felt about ending the Harry Potter series in London where she was honoured for outstanding achievement at the South Bank Show Awards on January 29.
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CARACAS -- Comedian Laureano Marquez has poked fun at politicians for decades without getting into trouble with the law, so he didn't think twice about writing a tongue-in-cheek newspaper editorial based on a dialogue between President Hugo Ch&#xE1;vez and his 9-year-old daughter.
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LONDON/NEW YORK  - The New York Times and the Baltimore Sun published reviews of the final Harry Potter book on Thursday before it went on sale, drawing a stinging response from author J.K. Rowling.
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In popular culture, GuantÃ¡namo Bay has become shorthand for hopeless imprisonment and isolation.
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How does J.K. Rowling feel now that she has finished the seventh and final Harry Potter book? As the author herself confided Tuesday on her Web site, "Charles Dickens put it better than I ever could":
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Spanish villages are toning down traditional fiestas in which revelers blow up dummies representing the Prophet Mohammed for fear of offending Muslims, the newspaper El Pais reported on Monday.
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Real Betis president Manuel Ruiz de Lopera remains coy over the future of winger Joaquin. Joaquin appeared to be saying goodbye to Betis supporters at the end of Sunday&#39;s fiery derby with Seville, kissing the club&#39;s badge and waving to the crowd.
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As the political establishment chuckles over his recent gaffes, the surging underdog candidate hopes to have the last laugh
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NEW YORK - A man arrested after telling lawyer jokes at a courthouse got the last laugh when a grand jury dismissed the disorderly conduct charge against him.
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Lev Grossman looks at J.K. Rowling's loose ends and why the book's closing chapter might leave a few Harry Potter fans unsatisfied
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Colombia celebrated the 80th birthday of Nobel Prize-winning novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez on Tuesday with a vow to rebuild the author's childhood home in the banana-producing town of Aracataca and convert it into a museum.
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Spanish villages are toning down  traditional fiestas in which revelers blow up dummies  representing the Prophet Mohammed for fear of offending  Muslims, the newspaper El Pais reported on Monday.
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The macho hunter image of Ernest Hemingway is replaced by a picture of the author as a confident and happy man in one of his last manuscripts, to be published this fall.
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J.K. Rowling has leaked the ending of the eagerly awaited last book of her Harry Potter series -- to her husband.
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Pirate copies of Colombian writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez's new work are being sold before its release, publishers say.
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Blog: Kids and adults alike--many in costume--show up for the party to commemorate the launch of the final installment of J.K. Rowling's already legendary book series.