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...Eventually we got down to brass tacks," Rivers said. "I was actually surprised that we got him to commit to anything in that form...
...album “Hvarf-Heim.” Without the opaque production of their previous albums, the arrangements on “Heim” use abundant strings and horns to fill the gaps. “Heysátan,” with its delicate brass swells, outshines the original version. Standout track “Ágætis Byrjun” features the album’s sparsest instrumentation, allowing the listener to focus on the vocals. Never has Jonsi Birgisson’s otherworldly falsetto, both bright and haunting at the same time, rang...
Yankee comparisons, not surprisingly, make the Boston brass uneasy. "We don't quite have the resources they do," says Red Sox general manager Theo Epstein. The Yankees payroll hit $195 million this year, still comfortably ahead of Boston's figure. "I don't buy into it," he says. Lucchino, standing in Boston's champagne-splattered clubhouse, fended off all Yankee talk. "We aren't the old Yankees, new Yankees, anybody's Yankees," he says. "We ain't trying to be no Yankees...
...Sept. 13, his "Awakening" movement lives on and his image adorned police cars, armored vehicles and city walls for Tuesday's parade marking the end of 40 days of mourning. Hundreds of Iraqi police officers and soldiers beamed as they passed the reviewing stands manned by tribal sheiks, military brass and civilian leaders at the Government Center...
...Burma's top brass wasn't always so universally despised. Formerly a ragtag band of freedom fighters, the military helped the country free itself from British colonialism. Aung San, the father of democracy activist Suu Kyi, is revered both as an independence hero and as the founder of Burma's army. After independence in 1948, this group of beleaguered soldiers transformed itself into a professional force, opening the West Point-inspired Defense Services Academy. The military also burnished its legitimacy in another way, claiming to be the only force that could keep the country together. Burma is composed of more...