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THEY CALL RUSSELL SIMMONS THE man with the juice. That's rapspeak for power. During the past decade, this streetwise entertainment mogul has amassed tons of it. You want to talk records? He owns six labels, including the pioneering Def Jam. Live concerts? His management company boasts a roster of such seminal rap performers as Run-DMC, Public Enemy, LL Cool J and 3rd Bass. Television? His broadcast and film-production company turns out the popular Home Box Office show Russell Simmons' Def Comedy Jam, a weekly showcase for black stand-up comics. Nobody has done more than Simmons...
...People thought of it as a gimmick, but I knew it wasn't," he says. He eventually quit school to promote rap full time. In 1983 he and a friend named Rick Rubin, a student at New York University, pooled their savings and started the Def (rap for cool) Jam (music) label. They signed a distribution deal with CBS Records two years later. (Rubin left in 1988 over differences about the direction of the company...
After capitalizing on one break to snatch the first set 6-3, Elmusts fought her way out of a jam serving 3-4 in the second to win three straight games and the match. "That was a key game," Elmuts said about her service game at 3-4, "because every other service game I had that set was quick. It felt good to pull that out." HARVARD, 8-1 at Palmer-Dixon Tennis Courts...
Last night they streamed into the North House dining hall to hear some of Harvard's musical performance groups at the ever-popular a capella jam. Afterwards, pre-frosh attended an "ice cream smorgasbord...
...lighter note, "Strawberry Jam" is a slow wink of a song about culinary self reliance in a cold corporate world. "We have Welches, Smuckers, Knott's Berry Farm/ But a little of homemade jam never did a body no harm/ A little local motion is all we really need/ to close down these corporate jam, straw berry jam/ If you want the best jam, you got to make your...