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A Background Check for Santa Claus

NPR
Published December 18, 2002 at 12:00 AM EST

Santa's not the only one who checks his list. Companies who hire shopping-mall St. Nicks are going to greater lengths to make sure their Christmas-time helpers don't have naughty tendencies. NPR's Cara Gerhard reports.

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