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...repo man, a sort of sub-prime-rate enforcer. He enrages the people whose holiday he's ruining and exasperates his meter-maid inamorata with big ideas never fulfilled, dinner dates blown off. Plying a Salvation Army scam, Fred lands in jail and is forced to call his brother Nick, a.k.a. Santa, to go his bail. That brings him to the North Pole, the prodigal son carrying a grudge as big as Santa's sack of gifts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Claus That Won't Fly | 11/11/2007 | See Source »

...first quarter: Fourth and three for the Quakers...play action pass JUST off the hands of Nick Cisler of Penn...the ball goes to the Crimson...

Author: By Crimson Sports Staff | Title: LIVE BLOG: Harvard Football vs. Penn - 11/10/07 | 11/10/2007 | See Source »

...glove, keeping the score at 2-1. In the third period, the Golden Knights outshot Harvard, 6-5, but Richter pulled through with a series of difficult stops in the last 10 minutes of play. With the toe of his right pad, he kept out an attempt by forward Nick Dodge and quickly turned around to kick away a shot from forward David Cayer. Though the Crimson failed to beat last season’s nemesis, its strong defense carried over to the next night’s game against St. Lawrence. Richter’s stops throughout the game...

Author: By Vanda R. Gyuris, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: AOTW: Backstop Boosts Crimson | 11/6/2007 | See Source »

...Tour, which comprises more than 20 courses, reservations just continued going up. "You would think that increasing the Tour from $175 to $195 would have an effect on demand, but the overall percentage of Tours we sell on any given night has increased steadily," says co-owner Nick Kokonas. In fact, the restaurant wound up dropping its comparatively cheap $85 prix fixe meal, since no one was ordering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Conspicuous Consumption | 11/2/2007 | See Source »

...have long succeeded in imposing quotas on sugar imported from the Caribbean, though it is one of the islands' crops of comparative advantage. European governments, with the French at the fore, have always sought protection for their farmers as a way of preserving the rural environment and village life. Nick Stern, chief economist of the World Bank, recently estimated that total agricultural subsidies in the rich world were worth $300 billion a year--about equal to all the economies in sub-Saharan Africa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Free-Trade Hypocrites | 10/29/2007 | See Source »

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