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...This was a kick in the teeth, but McKiernan took it extraordinarily well," a senior Pentagon official said. Other military officials were less courteous. "I still can't figure out why they put an armored guy with no Afghan experience in charge," one said. A second senior official said, "Dave McKiernan is clearly part of the Army's old guard - he led troops in [1991's] Desert Storm, for pete's sake. But if things were going better over there, he'd be staying...
...fall in prices, no matter the cause, could be devastating for the pork industry and ultimately bad for consumers. According to Dave Ward and Perry Iverson of Commodity and Ingredient Hedging, LLC, a Chicago-based agricultural-risk-management consulting firm, if prices continue to fall over the coming weeks, there will be fewer pork producers next year - and less pork production, consequently. Assuming demand for pork recovers, this will lead to higher prices long-term...
...great comic. But I got a call the next day from the talent coordinator of the Tonight Show who said, David Letterman said he saw you and that you might be a good candidate for the Tonight Show. I didn't get on until 12 years after, but once Dave got his NBC show, which was a little bit later, they just booked me. It was a really terrific break for me, because David Letterman basically said to me the first time I was on the show, I think you're terrific, and any time you have a set ready...
...collaborator Gary Gygax (who died last year) created a new genre of entertainment with their 1974 role-playing game, Dungeons & Dragons. Dave Arneson, 61, and Gygax promoted gaming that encouraged teamwork to succeed...
...Dave Sayler, a camping specialist at the Seattle flagship store of REI, one of the country's largest outdoor-gear companies, has fielded all manner of ridiculous questions from rookies. "I try to keep a straight face," he says. "I've been asked if a tent will keep bears out." (For the record, the answer...