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...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. (See the top 10 banned books...
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...India's edge is due to the different stimulus programs adopted by the two countries to support growth during the downturn. China implemented what Walker calls "the biggest stimulus program in global history." On top of government outlays for new infrastructure and tax breaks, Beijing most significantly counted on massive credit growth to spur the economy. The amount of new loans made in 2009 nearly doubled from the year before to $1.4 trillion - representing almost 30% of GDP. The stimulus plan worked wonders, holding up growth even as China's exports dropped...
...marathon brawl at the top of France's conservative political establishment took another dramatic turn Thursday when a Paris court cleared former Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin of charges he orchestrated a smear campaign to scuttle fellow conservative and arch-enemy Nicolas Sarkozy's presidential hopes. De Villepin's acquittal will allow him to redouble his opposition to Sarkozy - and claim he survived the president's attempt to eliminate him with a trumped-up court case...
...restored and with his hatred magnified by 10. From here out, de Villepin will attack every move Sarkozy makes and position himself as a rival candidate in 2012 to defeat Sarkozy for the presidency - or at least guarantee he thwarts his re-election by dividing the right." (See the top 10 political sex scandals...