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Finishing up a 15-2 season with the Vikings proved to be more difficult than anticipated. In the NFC championship game, the Vikings stumbled over the Atlanta Falcons in overtime, losing 30-27 on a Morten Andersen field goal. The Falcons eventually fell to the defending champion Denver Broncos 34-19 in last Sunday's Super Bowl...
Defying the expectations of even their fans, the Atlanta Falcons are in the Super Bowl. This means the Dirty Bird Dance could become the Next Big Thing. Here, prominent Georgians show you how to do the Bird...
...said now, perhaps, that Kellie Ann Mann's first crime was falling in love with a guy like Patrick. Before she met the popular, streetwise boy whose curly, shoulder-length blond hair and swaggering gait sent girls' hearts racing, Mann was just another middle-class Atlanta teenager crossing the rocky terrain of adolescence. Once, twice at most, she toked a joint. Then, she says, one night in 1986, outside Crestwood High School in Roswell, Ga., with Patrick sitting beside her in her new silver Volkswagen Golf, she took her first hit of LSD. "My parents were divorcing, and I guess...
...been hard for outsiders to see, following the recent crackdowns in China, that there is a place for democracy in this vast nation. There is--though it remains limited. Two weeks ago, I joined an American delegation from the Atlanta-based Carter Center to observe a township election of government officials and People's Congress representatives in China's Sichuan province. When we arrived in Banqiao (pop. 1,987), a hamlet of thatch-roof houses and muddy roads, the villagers had gathered on the basketball court of a local school to elect three representatives to the township. People's Congress...
...bribe them--but the facts seem unassailable. I.O.C. executive Marc Hodler, a Swiss lawyer who has lately been acting as the organization's conscience, alleged last month that five to eight of his colleagues had solicited bribes from potential host cities. Hodler then accused the previous winning cities of Atlanta, Nagano and Sydney of corruption--a charge officials in all three cities deny. (A leader of Anchorage's bid effort revealed to the Denver Post that in 1992 and 1994 his committee had refused I.O.C. operatives seeking $30,000 in return for votes...