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Hartsfield is founder of the Amalgamated Order of Real Bearded Santas, a national group based in Riverside, Calif. The group got its start in 1994 after a bunch of Kris Kringle look-alikes met while filming a commercial and then decided to keep on meeting. Today more than 1,000 men--most of them big, bewhiskered and jolly--are in the order's database...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Meet the Real Santas | 12/5/2006 | See Source »

...respecting Pave-aficionado will already have all those cuts, and the First Law of “Wowee Zowee”-era B-Sides states that, for every “Give it a Day,” there’s an equal and opposite “Kris Kraft.”Tellingly, the “new” material here includes a live version of “Kris Kraft.” We’re scraping the bottom of the barrel here, folks.Where 2004’s “Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain...

Author: By Abe J. Riesman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: CD OF THE WEEK: Pavement | 11/8/2006 | See Source »

Todorov has a special interest in politicians, people for whom physiognomy can be destiny. Take Mikhail Gorbachev. After the ursine Leonid Brezhnev, Gorby was Kris Kringle. His rounded cheeks, his careless hairlessness, even his great red spot all left him looking disarmingly rumpled. That was a guy who not only could dismantle an empire and knock down a wall but would also remember to keep caramels in his pocket for the grandkids. Vladimir Putin, by contrast, is less gentle grandpa than live mink. President George W. Bush may have looked into Putin's soul and been reassured by what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Facing Realities | 11/5/2006 | See Source »

...rest of the year, the course lies mainly dormant, except when giant gray kangaroos come to graze, or roadhouse workers Craig Cooke and Kris Hutchison come for R and R. (New Zealander Hutchison, 23, prefers the nearby mini-golf course-"It's cool.") For Port Lincoln-born Cooke, 34, it's sometimes necessary to get away from the relative rat race of the Nullarbor. "A lot happens out of Eucla," he insists. "We've had suicides, cyclists go under trucks, cars flip over-you name it." But they've yet to see a hole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Fair Way to Go for Golf | 8/7/2006 | See Source »

...photographs from Congo is simply devastating. Why is the world so silent? The U.S. is spending billions of dollars fighting wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, but to what avail? If the Bush Administration really cares about establishing democracy around the world, it is concentrating on the wrong region. Kris Sahay Winnipeg, Canada...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 6/26/2006 | See Source »

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