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With his belly hiding his belt, with his red suspenders and white beard, Glen Parshall is a dead ringer for Santa Claus, except for the snub-nosed pistol he keeps tucked in his back pocket. Parshall spends his days behind the gun cage of Bargain Pawn, in a roughneck North...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Libertarians: A (Not So) Lunatic Fringe | 7/10/2008 | See Source »

NASA should be so lucky as to find a button-nosed snowman in the Martian arctic. A more serious hope is that the $557 million Phoenix will help determine whether organic life is possible on the planet by securing the first sample of Martian ice for testing. Although images of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Probe Breaks the Ice on Mars, Literally | 5/26/2008 | See Source »

1978 The greatest rivalry in horseracing reached a climax at the Belmont, when Affirmed nosed out Alydar at the finish. Affirmed won the crown, and Alydar was the bridesmaid all three times.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Big Love for Big Brown | 5/22/2008 | See Source »

But these are business decisions rather than gestures of colonial nostalgia. Tata bought Jaguar not because it is British, but because it thinks it can make the company work where Ford failed. Indeed, Tata might turn out to be more hard-nosed (and lucky) than Ford. For too long, Jag...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How India 'Colonized' Britain | 4/11/2008 | See Source »

“From my standpoint it was a banger at the plate, and when they got up there was a little more of a collision,” Walsh added. “It’s a just a banger, hard-nosed play.”

Author: By Emily W. Cunningham, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: NOTEBOOK: Harvard falls to UMass in the opening round of the Beanpot | 4/10/2008 | See Source »

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