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...Prime Time is every bit as confusing as the man himself. On one track, Must Be the Money, he boasts of turning library cards into credit cards, and on another, Movin', he gets in some very nasty licks against both Tiny Tim McCarver and another of his sworn enemies, Spike Lee. But there's also a nice tribute to his father and a song that asks you to "respect your woman." There's even a track called Heidy Heidy Hey, which probably has the recently deceased Mr. Calloway stirring in his grave. Prime Time, you see, can't sing...
...pointed out that this year's increase was not a sudden spike, but the continuation of a five year trend...
...grain annually to help feed its 1.5 billion people. By the same year, an increasingly industrialized China will need to purchase 200 million tons of grain abroad for its 1.6 billion people, as much as is now exported by all the world's countries. The result will be a spike in food prices that will trigger "wholesale social disintegration" in Africa, Latin America and other poor regions. "China's scarcity will become the world's scarcity," Brown predicts...
...separates the men from the boys. The 5,000 meter course was, in fact, once quoted in Sports Illustrated as being "the toughest and most grueling cross-country course in the nation." It is also the site of the largest cross-country meet in the country, known as the Spike Shoe, which takes place annually on October 18 and attracts running enthusiasts from all over the world...
FILM The success of movies by black directors like Spike Lee (Do the Right Thing) and John Singleton (Boyz in the Hood) proved that black-oriented, mainstream movies can be profitable. Less commercial black filmmakers like Julie Dash (Daughters of the Dust) and Charles Burnett (To Sleep with Anger) continue to have difficulty raising money, but they produce substantial work nevertheless. One such movie is Haile Gerima's electrifying underground hit Sankofa, in which a young black woman is transported back in time to experience the horrors of slavery. Gerima, a professor of film at Washington's predominantly black Howard...