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Over the following months, Salinger broke through to mass-circulation magazines like Collier's and Esquire and had a tantalizing first brush with the New Yorker, the magazine he wanted badly to appear in, the one that could validate him not just as a professional writer but also as an artist. By this time, he had written a story about a boy named Holden Caulfield who runs away from prep school. The New Yorker accepted it, then put it on hold. But Caulfield was a character close to the author's heart, and Salinger wasn't done with...
...insurer owned on 55% of the $4.3 billion in CDS contracts it had sold to the Swiss bank. For the remaining 45%, UBS was willing to allow AIG to pay 10% less than what it had originally promised. Those deals would have saved AIG about $1 billion. AIG later broke off those negotiations, and as with all of its other counterparties, paid UBS in full. BlackRock, in the report, said Goldman Sachs, French bank Calyon and German financial giant Deutsche Bank were also willing to strike deals...
MARK MCGWIRE, St. Louis Cardinals batting coach, admitting that he used steroids--including in 1998, the year he broke the single-season home-run record...
...Crimson took two consecutive penalties in the opening minutes, and at 8:06, Rensselaer broke through again...
Seven minutes into the period, a trio of Rensselaer players broke towards the goal, catching co-captain Kathryn Farni in an odd-man rush...