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...smoke. The 35-year-old general contractor has just come from saving a stranger's house. "I saw this wall of flames," he explains, "and I saw no one doing anything. I ran toward it, and then this 25-year- old guy started coming over and said, 'Hey, dude, you need some help?' And about five other guys came over and started helping too." He gazes through the haze and flames at another building, still standing. "That belongs to a friend of mine. It's worth more than a million dollars. Have you ever been to Laguna...
...Black Bible Chronicles (African American Family Press; $14.95) remains the most striking and the most controversial of the lot. The God here is one mean dude, sounding at times more like a gang leader than the Lord. Warning Noah of the Flood, he says, "I'm fed up with what's happenin' 'round here. These folks ain't what's happenin' anymore, so I'm gonna do what I gotta do, and end things once and for all. Man, I'm gonna blow the brothers clear outta the water...
...Butt-head are both more and less stark. The title characters are animated figures, a pair of teenage slackers (imagine Wayne and Garth desentimentalized), but the live-action Faith No More and Aerosmith videos interlarded with Beavis and Butt-head's pro-and-con commentaries ("For a big muscular dude he sure sings like a wuss") are nothing if not cartoonish. "There are moments of self-parody on MTV," says MTV creative director Judy McGrath, "but most of them are unintentional." This may be the bravest show ever run on national television: it lampoons not just the performers...
...these incidents suggest, Cornel West is one complex dude: brilliant scholar, political activist, committed Christian and soul brother down to the bone. At 40 he has become one of the most insightful and passionate analysts of America's racial dilemma to emerge in recent years, the architect of a post-civil rights philosophy of black liberation that is beginning to be heard across the country. "I think he is one of our most important critical thinkers," says James H. Cone, West's former colleague at New York's Union Theological Seminary. "He has almost singlehandedly helped us see the importance...
Seven days later, Harvard lost to RPI, 4-3 in overtime in the quarterfinals of the ECAC playoffs. Season over, dude...