Word: jamal
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Morello is quick to point out that his band backs up its revolutionary rhetoric with action, such as staging benefit concerts for imprisoned American Indian Movement leader Leonard Peltier and death-row inmate/activist Mumia Abu-Jamal. During an appearance on NBC's Saturday Night Live in April, the band attempted to hang inverted American flags to protest the influence of big money on American politics (former presidential candidate/millionaire Steve Forbes was the host that night), and Morello says SNL cut the band's second song from the program in retaliation. A spokesman for SNL, however, says the group's second...
1980S NOSTALGISTS Molly Ringwald, Michael J. Fox and Malcolm-Jamal Warner are all back in new comedies...
...differentiating themselves from the bigger, established players in the TV game. In a classic case of counterprogramming, the two mininetworks will between them air 11 ethnic-themed shows in the fall--nearly twice the big-network total. Some of them star familiar names like Sherman Hemsley, Malcolm-Jamal Warner and Robin Givens. One, UPN's Homeboys in Outer Space, is a must-see for the high-concept title alone. Some are refugees from the Big Four: Moesha, an urban sitcom starring teen singer Brandy Norwood, was developed for CBS, but after the network passed...
...five of its board members, as well as other defendants, of fraud and extortion. According to the complaint, the defendants tried to loot the Saudi European Bank, an Arab-owned institution in Paris. The lawsuit was filed by the bank's former parent company, headed by Syrian-born banker Jamal Radwan. The complaint charges that several defendants concocted a scheme for Investcorp to take over Saudi European Bank. In addition, Kirdar allegedly threatened to persuade other banks to stop doing business with Radwan's. Some of the individuals named in the complaint are also accused of trying to bribe...
Harvard is focusing on the Red Raiders' tailback-fullback tandem of Jamal Patterson and Daymon Smith. The two's combined average of 146 yards per game should make it a gritty contest, especially if the weather is poor as is predicted...