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...Santa Claus must dread dealing each yuletide with Harvard professors and administrators. His elves probably flee the workshop when mail from these ivory towers comes in. Just to solicit these requests, the big red man has to untangle the University's big red tape. And when the gift lists do emerge from the laboratories and the libraries, they are dominated by intangible, high-browed items...
...most Santas are cheerful about the role they play each winter. Wallace stresses the importance of keeping the idea of Santa Claus in the 'minds of kids for as long as possible--"They will face this harsh, ugly world soon enough," he says. "If I can keep one more kid believing in Santa Claus another year it will be all worth it. I say every year this will be the last, but sure enough I'm always back in the sleigh...
Some of these rockers simply rework traditional, time-tested material. Meat-loaf, for example, garnered high critical honors for his moving rendition of "Santa Claus is Coming to Town." Neil Young's version of "Silent Night"--complete with a gut-wrenching, distorted guitar solo--also hit the mark, proving that this hard-bitten rocker has a little bit of holiday cheer...
Martha Von Bulow is still in a coma in a New York hospital. Claus yon Bulow would have inherited $14 million had his wife died and had he not been convicted of the attempted-murder charge...
...preliminary papers filed with the Rhode Island Supreme Court this week. Dershowitz wrote that Claus Von Bulow a stepson and a private investigator had illegally obtained a key piece of evidence in the original trial-an insulin-tainted hypodermic needle...