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The ic Battalion Aggielife Page 3 • Friday, November 20, 1998 hi cat ion systei ; happen." er lunch andirl there were :| nortem dij tlie elections! f just two overnors to lo re Republican lit tee must re, it operation and * of money dial nocratic candii > governors, earned a as from licans in the ist do better e not e should ni are not g said, as not lost lat the gova :is were ova impeachment i Galen, head n adviser r NewtGinj e governors mgress ted their sd i would have itself of new -’tween the ngress.” y within the ut of the ut< t’s within the mith continut efinition forbids living fetus :1 before it te law was isiana Legist ckerssaid it™ outlaw re known as ortion, ttof Smith argued tate’s by Derittda 'ers for Life o was a ssistant atti his case, tid birth of the al. Allowing lat point wot to other types te argued. IVERSITY Meier, Manage] ohnston, Opinion ibb, Sports E* 1 ' r Jones, City E# v Baley, Radio /eber, Night Ne** Brown, Web tf' arth Brooks’ entrance onto the stage last night seemed more like a scene out of 2001: A Space Odyssey than a concert, t-cked out in a black Stetson, Pck-and-white-striped shirt and |te Wranglers, the country astar blasted into Reed Arena a top a white piano and immedi- jjfely charged the audience with lack When the Old Stuff was w” from 1995’s Fresh Horses. Brooks was pumped, and the en- in the arena was electrifying, don’t know if you remem- r,” he said after the opening !ng, “but we were here seven ars ago. And we came here lentes, Robert Menu ‘p n *8 ht for the same reason we me seven years ago — to raise ir, Timothy Kang, me hell and have some fun.” „But would you expect anything nes, Victor Van S# L , 1 ps from the King of Country? trpe.ManishaPaieu 1 1 He and opemng-act Trisha ar, Tiffany Grant,hrwood performed each song ionics Fiores & m lwlessl y’ Paving that the great- t of entertainers do not need stu- bitz, Fatir Patton,wt' 1 o doctoring to achieve the sound sociated with their albums. ett, Robert StritW* 1 ,. j r , • , Yearwood performed a wide- fsuuentPutowT n ge of songs from her past al- 345-3313; fax: 8i5$ jms, including “A Perfect to i )ve ” and “The Song Remem- anuoffice?rs When.” Brooks covered all six of his of The Battalion, w® I'evious albums, and took the 3 for the summer, ^ Jtncert as an opportunity to ex- rsandMondayttin# 1 {lore songs off his most recent ige Raid at College®^ wiginal album. Sevens. «llege Station, Brooks still has two more per formances tonight and tomorrow night in College Station before he ends his world tour. After that. Brooks said he will concentrate on his. family — his three daughters, Taylor, August and Allie, and his wife, Sandy. “ [After Saturday’s show] I’ve got to push through Jan. 1 for my record label,” Brooks said in a press conference yesterday afternoon. “Then, I get to stay at the house and with those girls. And that’s what I plan on doing — just trying to be the dad I haven’t been.” Aside from spending time with his family. Brooks said he can’t wait to get back to his ranch in Tennessee and throw hay. “I’ve got to tell you,” he said, “throwing hay’s a blast for me. I just love it. The guys all look at me like I’m crazy, but I just love throwing hay. ” And after the hayfields are all cut and the bales are all thrown, Brooks will be back in the studio, working on material for a new duet album with Yearwood. However, a date hasn’t been fi nalized for the album because the two artists are on separate labels — Brooks with Capitol Records and Yearwood with MCA. “The labels are having a hard time coming together,” Yearwood said in a press conference yester day, “but they’re closer than ever to making an agreement. And then that just puts us now on the line to find the songs.” Brooks said the album with Yearwood will redefine the mean ing of duet. “We’re going to try and stretch what the word duet means,” he said. As for his plans on the last days of his world tour. Brooks said he wants to end the tour on a high note for him, his crew and his fans. “I think the third show, Satur day, I’m going to emotionally shut down,” he said. “This is our baby. This is where it stops for us, and what the future is, nobody knows. So it’s going to be emotional.” Story by Kasie Byers Photos by Brandon Bottom