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...YORK—The 2004 NBA Draft’s number one pick, Dwight Howard, is younger than I am. In his brief interactions with the NBA, the Southwest Atlanta Christian High School grad has already mused about superimposing a crucifix on the NBA logo, pleaded for a future with superstar Tracy McGrady, and confidently rebuked those critics who question his lack of edge and toughness...
...Arizona Diamondbacks' RANDY JOHNSON, 40, became the oldest pitcher to hurl a perfect game when he beat Atlanta in May. Over the hill? Hey, the Big Unit owns the hill...
Shannon Lanier, who is black, had a very personal reason to accept the story all along. His mother had told him as a child that he was related to the third President. Descended from Hemings' son Madison, Lanier recalls standing up in his first-grade class in Atlanta and announcing his presidential heritage: "I said, 'Thomas Jefferson was my great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather.' The teacher told me to sit down and stop telling lies...
McCagg, who is the assistant publishing manager of Candlewick Press, twice represented the United States in the Olympics, first in Barcelona in 1992, then at the Atlanta games in 1996. On both occasions, the American eight reached the grand final...
...then last December, the wheels fell off, with a vengeance. Adams suddenly left the job and moved back home to Atlanta. "Co-leadership is difficult," Adams, 59, told TIME. "There are genuine issues of power and authority." And whereas the congregation regarded Buchanan as a great man, "a Moses," she says, she "had no credibility or right to respect of the sort I had earned in Atlanta ... Men newly introduced are given that respect. But it's harder for women...