Word: atlanta
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South Koreans won both the men's and women's events at Barcelona, and they're aiming for the same in Atlanta. The U.S. men--Butch Johnson, Justin Huish and Rod White--may contend for a team medal...
...plushest district--and the center of the gracious, almost antebellum Atlanta that the city likes to show to visitors--is Buckhead. In Buckhead magazines like Peachtree ("The Guide to the Civilized South") feature special sections on "The Women of Polo" and glossy pages full of charity balls and coming-out parties, cosmetic dentists and a young woman actually called Memory. One Buckhead mall--Lenox Square--advertises itself on a list with St. Peter's Square, Union Square, Red Square, Trafalgar Square and Times Square; another ("World Class City. World Class Shopping") boasts sweeping staircases and wooden elevators, polished brass...
...what Buckhead most vividly dramatizes, perhaps, is the split down the center of the city between Atlanta and Georgia. For if to the rest of the state the capital seems an anomalous Northern transplant (more than half its residents, after all, come from somewhere else), to the boomtown developers in the glass-walled towers the rest of the state seems dangerously slow and Southern...
This adds to the sense that the War Between the States never ended here. Three thousand Confederate soldiers are buried in the heart of downtown, and visitors can take tours led by people dressed as Confederate (or Union) soldiers. Letters to the local paper still rail against "occupied Atlanta," and a debate continues to rage about whether to take the symbol of Dixie out of the state flag. Want ads solicit old Klan outfits, burned Klan crosses and "other civil rights memorabilia...
...less disarmingly, a city where even the central Underground Atlanta mall posts "Rules of Etiquette" also unabashedly proclaims itself "a nude dancing mecca," where a single escort service lists more than 100 different options in the Yellow Pages, and the giveaway tourist guide, This Week Atlanta, offers boxed reviews of skin houses. Atlanta's strip joints do have their idiosyncrasies (they boast Internet addresses, atm machines and free valet parking, and one, on Corporate Boulevard, actually advertises "corporate atmosphere"), yet the unbroken lines of Girls-R-Fun clubs and joints presenting "250 Platinum Girls" throw some of the city...