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If you want to gauge the mood of the nation in a given Christmas season, don't look to your local shopping-mall Santa Claus. More than likely, he'll be feeling the opposite. In recent years, with the economy humming along, mall Santas seemed ever more disaffected by their work, weary of the physical hazards (getting sneezed and peed on, having their beards pulled) and the political ones (having the phrase "ho ho ho" deemed derogatory to women).
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