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...normal year, late November is the time to break out the mittens, dig up those old packets of instant hot chocolate and invest in a stockpile of firewood. But this year, November 28 will be remembered as the day that Harvard students felt more inspired to sunbathe than to sleigh...
With his hearty smile, salt-and-pepper beard and pillowy belly, Harvey George would make a perfect Santa -- so it's no surprise to see him fretting about Christmas as early as October. But come December, he will not be making his gift-giving rounds in a sleigh. In fact, he won't get much farther than a 6-ft.-by-12-ft. cell in East Jersey State Prison. For one bunch of determined philanthropists, charity begins behind bars...
...Stanislav Shatalin, then by opting for a much vaguer, slower schedule outlined by Gorbachev adviser Abel Aganbegyan. The compromise attempted to reconcile the imperatives of reform with the fears of many central-government leaders -- army generals and KGB men not the least among them -- of turbocharging a broken-down sleigh...
...largely spontaneous revolt of 1905, it was Trotsky, still only 25, who headed St. Petersburg's first soviet of workers and temporarily seized power in its name; when the Czar's soldiers crushed the revolt, Trotsky was sent to Siberia (he soon escaped on a hijacked sleigh). Lenin remained in Geneva, planning, maneuvering. In 1912 he finally had the strength to expel all the Mensheviks from his party...
Even in a state budget crisis there are huge white lights hanging from almost every tree in Boston Common, where sleigh rides take weary shoppers on a snowless ride through the city's center. A Christmas tree and menorah keep up the pretense of holiday cheer inside the gold-topped State House, where carollers sing while a weary legislature trims a budget rather than a tree...