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Salinger's 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...
...some 90 million people will watch the Indianapolis Colts play the New Orleans Saints in Super Bowl XLIV in Miami. Perhaps the Roman numerals are appropriate. Although football hasn't quite reached the bloodlust status achieved at the ancient Coliseum, the path to Super Bowl XLIV is strewn with the broken bodies and damaged brains that result when highly motivated, superbly conditioned athletes collide violently in pursuit of glory. The more we learn about the human cost of this quintessentially American sport, the more questions are being raised regarding the people who run it and play it. More than...
...various regulations, more loopholes shielding community banks and auto dealers (known for their pull with local Congressmen) from the new consumer agency's direct oversight. House Financial Services Committee chairman Barney Frank points out that the Republican alternative to the bill consisted of ending TARP and otherwise maintaining the status quo; he's surprised the GOP hasn't paid a political price. "I'm disappointed with the zeitgeist," Frank says. "The Republicans are so extreme they couldn't help themselves; they actually proposed doing nothing. I would've thought refusing to fix a dysfunctional system would be unpopular...
...chair said, "I'm out of vogue right now in the White House ... but I agree." Volcker secured his walk-on-water reputation by taming runaway inflation in the late 1970s, jacking up interest rates and ignoring intense public pressure to reverse course. His grandpa-in-the-attic status in Obamaworld seemed to suggest an Administration too cozy with the Street...
...Messori explained that if a Pope decided he was no longer capable of leading the church, he would convoke a Consistory of all the world's Cardinals at the Vatican. After they accept his resignation, the Cardinals would elect a successor, and the ex-Pope would "return to the status of simple priest in some hospital or monastery...