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...inside his palace as "Boss"-makes for the pool. Wearing red-tinted sunglasses, diamond studs and thick gold bracelets, he wades into the cool turquoise water, lights up a cigarillo and bellows out a limerick that begins, "There once was young man from Madras, whose balls were made of brass...
...terms of the piece itself, the Largo was particularly well-played, with the winds, brass, and strings producing a wonderful coherence; the cellos carried off the honors, with strong full tones that exploited the piece’s melodic qualities. The ending movement, Allegro con spirito, displayed excellent spiccato work by all of the ensemble and furnished the piece with a truly robust finish...
Inside the Pentagon, the brass maintain that as long as U.S. troops are dying by ones and twos, they can deal with it. But the steady accumulation of casualties is generating political fallout that goes beyond the President's declining approval rating. An unscientific but arresting survey last week in Stars and Stripes, the Pentagon-subsidized but editorially independent military newspaper, reported that half the troops serving in Iraq believe their unit's morale is low. A third said their mission lacked clarity; half said they were unlikely to re-enlist. Perceptions like those undermine military authority and help sour...
This November, the singers once shut out from the top groups on campus will grab their brass ring—a concert of their own in Sanders Theater. The LowKeys, four years ago the least likely contender to perform in Sanders, has broken into the “Grandfathered Six” and made it seven...
...need to hammer the two epicenters of terrorism, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, our backstabbing allies. Saudi Arabia may be the cradle of Islam, and Pakistan may have the bomb, but these two countries are playing us for fools. PETER D'BRASS Fort Worth, Texas...