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...very often, but he's actually Turkish. The world's most famous toymaker has had a diverse career - that's what happens when you stick around for over 1,700 years - and has dabbled in everything from raising the dead to working at the mall. A timeline of St. Nick's illustrious life...
...Clement Clark Moore writes a poem for his children, beginning with the iconic lines, "'Twas the night before Christmas." Within one reading, Nicholas shortens his name to Nick, gains weight, starts smoking and adopts seven more reindeer (probably to pull his excess weight). He embarks on his first breaking-and-entering spree...
...nickname "Santa Claus" has been growing in popularity, so St. Nick adopts it when he greets thousands of children at a Philadelphia department store. He also appears in newspaper advertisements around this time, urging people to buy Christmas presents...
...bankruptcies of the two companies, but in many regards it just passes the buck to Obama. To be fair, Treasury had but a week to address an incredibly complex problem and come up with a multibillion-dollar aid package - no small achievement, however lacking in teeth. (Read "In the Nick of Time: Bush Announces Auto Bailout...
...highlight of my year was visiting Walter Reed Army Hospital with my beloved New York Mets last summer. I'll never forget two of the younger players, Daniel Murphy and Nick Evans, sitting patiently with an equally young double amputee who talked a blue streak but couldn't remember where he was serving when he was wounded. We also met several of the extraordinary soldiers who were badly wounded while holding their Afghan firebase against an overwhelming Taliban assault last July. The Mets crashed, yet again, at the end of the season, but they earn a Teddy for remembering...