ROCHESTER, Minn. (AllPolitics, Dec. 26) -- Former Arkansas Gov. Jim Guy Tucker got a special Christmas gift Wednesday from the Mayo Clinic: a new liver.

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Historically, gold often rises during the time frame from late summer into Christmas or early in the New Year due to gift-giving holidays around the world, starting with Indian celebrations in autumn.

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You know, my grandmother was a Lutheran from Minnesota and a great woman, but the worst Christmas present gift I ever got--the strangest one--was she gave me two stuffed anatomically correct dolls, male and female.

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"Get the ghosts of Christmas past out of there -- all those little cans of this and that, the beef sticks from the gift basket no one can bear to throw out, " says Ewer.

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