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...Ripped confetti, deflated balloons and candy wrappers scattered across the City Hall lawn were the only remnants yesterday of the party that took place into the early morning hours on Monday, when the city commemorated the occasion with a wedding cake, music and speeches, and thousands gathered outside to cheer for the couples...
Before guards escorted the protestors out of sthe Forum, they threw confetti from the balcony...
There are other signs that China's economy is overheating. Chinese state-run banks, already technically insolvent, have in the past year been shooting out new loans for factories, roads and real estate as if from confetti cannons. According to China's central-bank numbers, lenders last year handed out about $335 billion, 50% more than the year before. It's just not possible that China's banks suddenly found so many new creditworthy ventures, says Nicholas Lardy of the Washington-based Institute for International Economics. "We've seen the greatest credit expansion in the past 25 years," he says...
...crowd cheered and threw fists upward, confetti machines blew bits of red, white and blue tissue into the wind blowing through the corridors of Cambridge Street...
...dashed upstairs to see their handiwork. Festoons of intertwined red, black and white crepe paper dangled from the ceiling; a football-shaped piñata nestled at the foot of my brother’s bed. A feather boa was twined around his pillows. The cheerleaders had scattered glittery confetti over his sheets; they had hung a red fringe from the door lintel. The poster taped to his mirror read, “#7 Can Kick That Ball 2 Heaven...Just Use Ur Golden Toe. From Your: Cheerleader Shelli.” Red, white and black helium balloons bobbed against...