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...bartender Dan Gibson was a little more skeptical. “I just think it’s hilarious that it’s put on the level of museums and stuff like that...
...shipyard. But their necks craned whenever they passed a temple of recent turbulence, like police stations surrounded by high walls and barbed wire, and the West Belfast peace line, a barrier that has separated Catholic and Protestant neighborhoods longer than Berlin was divided by its wall. Their guide, Bren-dan McKernan, laced fact with a heavy dose of blarney. He recited the alphabet soup of Irish paramilitary groups just as the bus passed a fast food restaurant. To the i.r.a., i.n.l.a., u.d.a. and u.v.f., he added kfc. "Their leader was known as the Colonel," he deadpanned. "They were responsible...
Along with the gear, Bass Pro also tries to keep local knowledge in stock, which allows it to compete with hometown shops. It hires local guides and gear experts to staff the stores. "See that guy over there? He's the best gunsmith in the area," says employee Dan Kardash, pointing to a man hunched over a firearm. Kardash himself is a fishing guide who runs the store's fishing department...
With a 4-3 loss to Brown in yesterday’s ECAC Division I Championship semifinal, the Harvard men’s tennis team relinquished its three-year stranglehold on the title. The Crimson lost the doubles point—only its third pair of Dan Nguyen and Shantanu Dhaka won, 8-5—but knotted the score at 2-2 halfway through the singles competition. Freshman Sasha Ermakov surmounted a 4-1, 40-15, third-set deficit to win at No. 2 singles, giving Harvard a 3-2 edge. His classmate Chris Clayton then lost...
...Dan Savage is known to readers of the New York Times as the (non-biological) father of a seven-year-old boy and as a writer who tugs at heartstrings with his occasional freelance articles on gay adoption. He is also known to readers of his internationally-syndicated sex column, “Savage Love,” as an unimaginably lewd version of Dear Abby. One could say—at the risk of sending eyes rolling—that Savage swings both ways...