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...Hornsby's new live album Here Come the Noise Makers combines his classic hits such as "The Way It Is" and "Mandolin Rain" with an entirely new sound. Although parts of the Bruce Hornsby and the Range signature style still remain, the backing band has changed dramatically, with more brass and a little bit more edge to the rhythm section. (For those of you who have no clue who Bruce Hornsby is, the piano line in Tupac's "Changes" is a sample from "The Way It Is.") Also, Hornsby's singing style has become much looser and much more soulful...
...dramas of peacetime military service in which a determined individual attains what he wants - in this case, master-chief rank and to be a master diver in the U.S. Navy - and in the process surmounts his own shortcomings and the completely predictable prejudice and near deadly hostility of the brass...
...ridden financing operation, which lends money to prospective customers, to GE Capital. It has also discussed selling Xerox PARC, its research center in Silicon Valley, a source of great innovation--from the computer mouse to the graphical user interface and laser printer--but, thanks to the missteps of top brass, not a source of much income...
...manager Katherine F. Stewart '02, who plays the French horn in a 91r brass quintet, says the material learned in the classes changes each semester...
After three years in an "incredibly groovy" Manhattan loft, the top brass at VIA, a marketing and strategic-design agency, also found they had to provide more separation. "The designers want music," explains Donna Torrance, general manager of the New York City office, "the writers want silence, and the account people are on the phone all day." Her solution? She is moving the departments far from one another and isolating the writers in a room with a door. But it's a 100-in.-wide swinging barn door, she notes. "When it's not shut, the opening is half...