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...annual revenues of $1 billion. "Why should he make records?" asks Russell Simmons, architect of Def Jam, the original hip-hop conglomerate. "Records are a distraction. He could be missing an opportunity to get really rich. I haven't produced a record for 15 years." Simmons, who once oversaw classic albums by Run D.M.C. and LL Cool J, adds, "Making records is over...
...challenge the project presented to Toyota was working with the flowing arcs of Gehry's 2,265-seat hall. The vineyard-style ceiling, which ripples in waves above the audience, asks much more of an acoustician than the classic shoebox-style design of a traditional concert hall. And Gehry's building includes tricky details, like seating that creates nooks and crannies where sound is lost, plus a hidden stage behind the main...
...DIED. DON GIBSON, 75, second-grade dropout who went on to write classic country ballads about loneliness and heartache; in Nashville, Tennessee. Gibson was a pioneer of the Nashville Sound, a spare style without fiddles or pedal steel guitars, and wrote two of his most famous songs-Oh Lonesome Me and I Can't Stop Loving You, a Ray Charles hit in 1962-on the day his television and vacuum cleaner were repossessed. "When I wrote those songs, I couldn't have been any closer to the bottom," he said...
...improve security for French Jews, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon suggested he might not have bothered. "The best solution to anti-Semitism is immigration to Israel," Sharon said on a visit to Italy. "It is the only place on earth where Jews can live as Jews." It's the classic Zionist argument, familiar to Paris rabbi Tom Cohen, who insists that "Jews have not only the right, but an obligation to be outside Israel. Israel needs a strong diaspora." Sharon promotes immigration to counter the demographic threat that Jews will become a minority in Israel and the occupied territories...
Colorado has already gotten its season off on the right hoof with a victory over Old Dominion and a 67-63 overtime win against No. 15 Notre Dame in last weekend’s WBCA Classic...