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...only novel, The Catcher in the Rye, was published in 1951 and gradually achieved a status that made him cringe. For decades the book was a universal rite of passage for adolescents, the manifesto of disenchanted youth. (Sometimes lethally disenchanted: After he killed John Lennon in 1980, Mark David Chapman said he had done it to promote the reading of Salinger's book. A few months later, when he headed out to shoot President Ronald Reagan, John Hinckley Jr. left behind a copy of the book in his hotel room.) But what matters is that even for the millions...
...Jerome David Salinger was born in New York on Jan. 1, 1919. His mother was a Scots-born Protestant who changed her name from Marie to Miriam to accommodate her Jewish in-laws. His father Solomon was a food importer who was successful enough by the time Salinger turned 13 to move the family to Park Avenue and enroll his underachieving son in a Manhattan private school. Salinger flunked out within two years. He was then packed off to Valley Forge Military Academy, outside Philadelphia. It would later be the model for Pencey Prep, the school Caulfield runs away from...
...bringing this case, legal powerhouses David Boies and Ted Olson - who most famously opposed each other in the Supreme Court over the 2000 presidential election - have managed to make mainstream the notion of gay marriage in a way that not even years of campaigning by gay-rights groups had been able to. That began to be clear almost immediately after the trial began early this month, as Republican stalwarts, from Cindy McCain to Herbert Hoover's granddaughter, began to speak out in favor of gay marriage. "This trial, and Ted's and David's profiles as nationally prominent, mainstream opinion...
...hard to argue in favor of an all-star game in which the league's seventh best player at his position makes the cut, let alone make the case for watching it. This weekend, football fans will be programming their DVRs - most likely to record some other channel - when David Garrard, quarterback for the 7-9 Jacksonville Jaguars, plods onto the field. Contain your excitement if you can: it's time for the Pro Bowl, the NFL's woeful attempt to match the popularity of baseball and basketball's all-star games...
...blame David Garrard. (Although those of us who chose him for our fantasy teams surely will.) Four of the league's élite quarterbacks - Peyton Manning, Ben Roethlisberger, Carson Palmer and Tom Brady - dropped out, citing injury or, in Manning's case, participation in the Super Bowl on Feb. 7. The result? Garrard's QB sneak, a move that lands him a spot as the AFC's third alternate despite pedestrian numbers and a losing record. (See pictures of Super Bowl entertainment through the ages...