'We prefer a grave in Colombia to a cell in the United States' By Gabriel Garcia Marquez, \o7 Gabriel Garcia Marquez was born in Aracataca, Columbia, in 1928. He is the author of many novels and collections of stories, including "One Hundred Years of Solitude," "The Autumn of the Patriarch," "Chronicle of a Death Foretold," "Love in the Time of Cholera" and "Of Love and Other Demons." Garcia Marquez was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982. He lives in Mexico City and Bogota\f7
What's Behind Surge in Foreign Campaign Cash? By James Risen, James Risen is a national correspondent in The Times' Washington bureau. He can be reached via e-mail at james.risen@latimes.com
L.A. River--a Force to Reckon With By Leon Furgatch, Leon Furgatch is a retired manager of community relations and educational services for the L.A. Department of Water and Power
Can Gore Replicate Bush's Jump? By William Schneider, WASHINGTON; William Schneider, a contributing editor to Opinion, is a political analyst for CNN
Zaire's Continuing Chaos: After Mobutu, the Deluge By Philip Christenson, WASHINGTON; Philip Christenson served for 10 years as a staff advisor on Africa for the House and Senate foreign affairs committees. He returned from Zaire last week
Want to Live Longer? Look to the Latino Lifestyle By David E. Hayes-bautista, David E. Hayes-Bautista, an associate editor at Pacific News Service, is executive director of the Center for the Study of Latino Health at the UCLA School of Medicine
The New Power in Sacramento By Sherry Bebitch Jeffe, Sherry Bebitch Jeffe, a contributing editor to Opinion, is a senior associate at the Center for Politics and Economics at Claremont Graduate School and a political analyst for KCAL-TV
Banking By Jonathan R. Macey, Jonathan R. Macey is a law professor and the director of the John M. Olin Program in Law & Economics at Cornell Law School
Pollard Revisited: Is Mr. X Spying Again in Washington? By Yossi Melman, Yossi Melman, a journalist for the Daily Ha'aretz, specializes in intelligence and terror affairs. He is coauthor of "Every Spy a Prince: The Complete History of Israel's Intelligence Community" (Houghton Mifflin)
Eli Broad By Nicolai Ouroussoff, Nicolai Ouroussoff is the architecture critic for The Times
Ensure 'America the Beautiful' By Theodore Roosevelt Iv, Theodore Roosevelt IV is a managing director of Lehman Brothers, New York. He is the great-grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt
Alaska...awesome! By Gerald Renner, HARTFORD COURANT; Renner is religion writer for the Courant, a Times Mirror newspaper based in Connecticut
Alaska...awesome! By Anne Hillerman, Hillerman is the author of "Done in the Sun," a book of solar energy experiments for children and "Ride the Wind USA to Africa," about a record-setting balloon flight from Maine to Morocco. She lives in Santa Fe, N.M