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...lights and hung with shiny ornaments. You don't see the colored lights strung outside along the eaves--a task my father cheerfully took on every year. You don't see that on the hearth, a glass of milk and a plate of cookies have been set out for Santa...
What is noticeable, if you look closely, is the wide-eyed look on the face of my young brother--a child who still believes he will hear during the night "the prancing and pawing of each little hoof" when Santa's sleigh clatters across the roof. My expression is different. I am snagged on the outer edge of childhood--old enough to know there is no Santa Claus and clearly already practicing that disdainful attitude which, in a few more years, I would turn into an art form. You can imagine my father reading the story in a fresh, expressive...
...Santa's Mixed Bag of Reforms When Gerhard Schröder's government reached agreement with the opposition Christian Democrats on a package of long-awaited economic reforms in mid-December, you might have expected German businesses to leap with Christmas joy. But despite lowered nonwage costs for employers, they're not all happy. Why? To help pay for a €7.8 billion tax cut, the compromise reduced federal subsidies to new home buyers (by 30%) and commuters who drive to work. "Business will go down, but we're not sure by how much," said Mario Wanke, who owns...
Summers says that Dean of the Physical Sciences and the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Venkatesh “Venky” Narayanamurti, who was lured from the University of California at Santa Barbara, serves as a model of the cross-department appeal that the administration is seeking in a life sciences dean...
...could be extremely upsetting for a child who does not receive the requested presents to believe that s/he has been too naughty." Advertising Standards Authority of South Africa, on why it forbade the country's post office from inviting children to write to Santa Claus...