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...tempo indeed. George Gershwin had agreed to write a symphonic jazz piece for bandleader Paul Whiteman. Gershwin didn't think he had agreed to finish it for a February performance until he read about it in a newspaper a month before the date. So Gershwin got to writing, developing some early musical sketches to a complete score. Almost. By the premiere, he hadn't finished scoring the piano solo. He played it himself, cuing Whiteman when to bring the orchestra back in. An orchestral star was born...
...wars move according to their own tempo; war plans, military men often say, are made to bebroken, good only until the first bombs are dropped and the real fighting begins. At the White House and inside the allied war rooms, the mood swung from hopeful expectation, with signs that the Iraqi regime may have been decapitated, to admonishing sobriety on Saturday, as U.S. soldiers encountered significant enemy fire outside southern Iraqi cities and on the road to Baghdad. "There's no cheering or high-fiving whatsoever," said a senior White House aide. "This is not a cakewalk...
...Mazzoleni said, the Terriers’ strong, physical play along the boards is much like that of the Big Red, but the tempo of the game will be very different. Where Cornell likes a slow, half-ice style of play, the BU will look to open things up in transition for its fast-skating forwards. However, emphasis on the forwards might be misplaced; in the teams’ two meetings this season, Harvard’s problem has been a combination of a faltering offense and passive defense...
...master track. Can't stand that slow intro? Use the eraser tool. Want to sample Sarah Vaughan singing a single line from Summertime? Cut and paste it as many times as you like. When you paint the second tune over the first, click on it to change the pitch, tempo and volume until they match. It's that simple...
...Mazzoleni said, the Terriers’ strong, physical play along the boards is much like that of the Big Red, but the tempo of the game will be very different. Where Cornell likes a slow, half-ice style of play, the BU will look to open things up in transition for its fast-skating forwards. However, emphasis on the forwards might be misplaced; in the teams’ two meetings this season, Harvard’s problem has been a combination of a faltering offense and passive defense...