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...Russell Simmons out of his New York University dorm room in 1984 and had a huge influence on the early history of rap (that's him as DJ Double R on the Beastie Boys' Licensed to Ill), but his formative experience as a producer came during a long-ago session with the Bangles. "Just before recording, one of the girls completely broke down," Rubin recalls. "She said, 'I don't think I can do this. I've never played on one of our records before.' Someone made her believe she wasn't good enough to play on her own records...
...nine times out of 10, what they come up with is as good as or better than how I would've done it," he says. Rubin's "they" includes a circle far wider than that of his peers. During a 1993 recording of an aborted Mick Jagger blues record, session guitarist Smokey Hormel recalls, Rubin walked up and asked, "How can I make guitars sound better?" "That was a first," says Hormel, who has since become a featured player on several Rubin albums. "He's still the only producer that does that. He runs a real democracy." Says Kiedis...
...judges saw promise in his idea and introduced him to some of the individuals that ultimately would prove crucial in the genesis of this latest entrepreneurial advance. “I came up with the idea behind ‘Brring!’ at a brainstorming session with the rest of the team in April 2006,” Tanjeloff said. “Ultimately, we wound up scrapping our old project, and since that day, we’ve been working on this.” “I’ve learned a ton from...
...part of this escalating war by other means, former Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently visited the U.S. and met with representatives of U.S. pension funds, whom Netanyahu encouraged to stop investing in any company that does business with Iran. One session with the state treasurer of Massachusetts and pension representatives from Rhode Island as well as New Hampshire legislators could lead to concrete steps in the next few months, sources tell TIME. "I'm generally opposed to bringing politics into investing, but former prime minister Netanyahu gave an impassioned plea as to how divestiture could be successful...
...Netanyahu's session with Cahill, a Democrat, was arranged with help from former Massachusetts governor and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, who himself has recently visited Israel. Netanyahu has also said he plans to meet with governor Arnold Schwarzenegger of California, a state that has huge pension funds, including the influential Public Employees Retirement System, or Calpers, worth some $225 billion...