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Jason Alexander sits in a booth in Dallas' Inwood Lounge, nervously twisting the napkin that came with his soft drink. It's the mannerism of a person who hasn't shed his...

NOCHE BUENA: Hispanic American Christmas Stories Edited by Nicolas Kanellos Oxford University Press, 370 pages, $32.50 Excitement shimmers in the air, and children's eyes are bright with anticipation. In the...

THE HIDING PLACE By Trezza Azzopardi Atlantic Monthly Press, 282 pages, $24 Dolores Gauci remembers life in disconnected scenes: the small chest that concealed her infant self from her father;...

On a frigid winter evening in 1960, Israeli secret agent Peter Z. Malkin tackled Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann outside his home in Buenos Aires, Argentina, then helped hustle him...

As the first son born into a traditional Korean family, Will Yun Lee was expected to pursue an "honorable" occupation. Doctor. Lawyer. Or any other profession that required a college...

In the realm of diseases, breast cancer is like a speeding semi that comes out of nowhere. And for women, ignoring the risk that this killer poses is as foolhardy...

The last the Stars saw of Phoenix Coyotes goalie Sean Burke, he was strolling out of Reunion Arena with two points stuffed in his carry-on. These were points the Stars...

It may well go down as the most profitable bedtime story ever told. When George Rodrigue was just a tyke growing up in the southern Louisiana town of New Iberia,...

NEVER DIE EASY By Walter Payton, with Don Yaeger Villard, 268 pages, $24.95 Walter Payton is best remembered for his glory days with the Chicago Bears, when he established the...

Before leaving for Canada last March, I checked the Web site for Banff and Lake Louise dozens of times, wondering what the problem was. Why were the pictures, posted each...