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...fundamentalist challenge takes two main forms. In the forefront is the traditional, more moderate approach of the 65-year-old Muslim Brotherhood, a religious, charitable and educational movement that abandoned the use of violence in 1971. It issued a statement last week denouncing the bombing as a "dangerous evil...
Hard Target would never have been a masterpiece; it lacks Woo's usual subtlety in dramatizing the brutal brotherhood of cops and creeps. It has a promising premise, a Most Dangerous Game gloss about a gang that arranges manhunts for macho millionaires, but nobody has much of a character. The loner hero (Van Damme), the woman in peril (Yancy Butler), the CEO-type villain (Lance Henriksen) and his soulless henchman (Arnold Vosloo) -- the roles are little more than job descriptions. Martial artist Van Damme gets to punch out a rattlesnake and follow this moral code: I shoot you three times...
...almost all the grocery stores in the area are owned by Korean Americans, a situation that has become increasingly politically charged. "This is black people doing something for ourselves," says Mom & Pop manager Myra Allen of the alcohol- free shop, which was funded with $500,000 from Los Angeles' Brotherhood Crusade Black United Fund Inc. "We always talk about what we are going to do and never do it. This time we're doing...
...forefront of the new movement are two leading proponents of urban bootstrap economics: Danny J. Bakewell, a wealthy real estate developer and president of the Brotherhood Crusade; and the Rev. Charles R. Stith, president and founder of the seven-year-old Organization for a New Equality (ONE) in Boston. Both men are pushing versions of the same idea: that economics is the key building block of political power. As Stith points out, in the U.S. the median white family's net worth is about $43,000, in contrast to $4,100 for the median black household. "The inescapable conclusion...
What also distinguishes Bakewell is his business background, since mainstream black leaders have traditionally come from the church. Formerly a bank president, he is now a developer. And since becoming president of the Brotherhood Crusade 19 years ago, he has built it into one of the most successful black charities. The Crusade, whose 11 full-time employees operate out of a brick building in South Central, is supported primarily by voluntary payroll deductions from black workers in federal and local government as well as the private sector. Total annual budget: $2 million. Bakewell donates his $85,000 salary back...