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...Pentagon. With 1,800 World War II--era vets passing away every day--and only 500 U.S. military buglers scattered around the globe--there's a shortage of buglers available to play taps at funerals. The Pentagon's solution: a cone-shaped, electronic taps player that hides inside the bell of a standard bugle. Powered by a pair of 9-volt batteries, the all-weather unit emits a high-quality, dutifully mournful rendition of taps. Listeners say it's a big improvement over the tape and CD versions that some vets have had to endure coming from nonmilitary-issue boom...
...climbed the corporate ladder at Crocker National Bank and Pacific Bell before the office culture began to wear him down. Again he took a look at cartooning. "I had always been a doodler, and people were looking at cartoons that I would draw on my whiteboard at work," he recalls. "People said, 'You should try to get that published.' I was just playing the odds. It seemed like the corporate life was safe and cartooning was wacky. But wacky started looking better." He sent samples to a syndicator and hit the jackpot...
...Staff writer Martin S. Bell can be reached at msbell@fas.harvard.edu...
...Staff writer Martin S. Bell can be reached at msbell@fas.harvard.edu...
...songs are artfully constructed, ranging from the introspective “My Sins” to the teasingly jazzy intro of “Before You Met Me.” Bell and Palmer’s guitar work is unaffected and terse, neither giving in to indie-style chord pounding nor dissolving into noodling solos. That said, album-opener “Green Eyes” boasts a yearning solo that might make the Edge proud. Matthew J. Kamen ’03 provides lithe basslines that mostly remain tied to the bass drum of Travis M. Beamish...