Q: Although I come across Borges and Calvino fairly often, too, I have to admit that Gabriel Garcia Marquez is the only one of the other authors I am at all familiar with, so I am not sure which difference it might make. I would be curious, though, what that difference might look like to people writing about media art and architecture in Spanish, for example.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez is a writer.
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A: yes

Q: Saddam Hussein was being treated with "dignity and respect."
Saddam Hussein was being treated as a dignitary.
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A: no

Q: Typhoon Xangsane lashed the Philippine capital on Thursday, grounding flights, halting vessels and closing schools and markets after triggering fatal flash floods in the centre of the country.
A typhoon batters the Philippines.
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yes