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...been satellites. For example, the CIA wants to build $1 billion-apiece "8X" spy satellites to photograph targets, even though it has sitting in warehouses about half a dozen satellites that have the capacity to take pictures for the next decade. The Air Force recently launched two $1 billion "Trumpet" signal intercepting satellites, which spend most of their time parked over the former Soviet Union. Furthermore, satellites may simply not be that useful. A highly classified CIA study recently concluded that satellites provide less than 10% of the valuable signal intelligence collected from such rogue states as Iraq and Iran...
Jones, who first went to Paris in 1951 while a trumpet player and arranger for the Lionel Hampton band, later moved there in 1957 and studied with the famed Nadia Boulanger...
...occasionally got a little annoyed at him," McIntosh says. "I think he played a trumpet once in a while. He also had a habit of rocking back and forth in his Harvard chair, and he would bump against the wall and hard on the floor. I even think House Master [John H.] Finley, Jr. [who lived directly below Kaczynski] even got on him about it once...
...aggressive blats, are humorous. The most characteristic and memorable passages, however, are those involving several different rhythms and themes played simultaneously in different parts of the orchestra. That HRO could remain crisp and confident in even the most jagged parts of the score is worthy of applause. Katherine Evans' trumpet solos had a gorgeous tone seldom heard from student brass players and won her a well-deserved ovation. Friday night proved once again how lucky we are to have HRO, even if there are empty seats in Sanders when it performs...
...right through you... All of this while balancing a drink in one hand and in the other a Vienna sausage wrapped in greasy bacon, which means one shakes hands with only two fingers and with one's mouth more puffed out than the cheeks of Dizzy Gillespie playing his trumpet...