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DARRYL STRAWBERRY SALARY: $3.8 MILLION 1991 Los Angeles Dodgers A big free-agent pickup--but the team blew a division lead to the Atlanta Braves and missed the play-offs...
...That was about it. FORTUNE 500 companies were only beginning to allow partners of gay and lesbian employees to buy into health insurance plans. Most big cities didn't offer their employees such arrangements; in 1993 plans to extend health benefits to same-sex partners of city employees in Atlanta and Seattle caused great public consternation...
...King Jr. was summoned to Mason Temple in Memphis, Tenn. Striking sanitation workers—demanding higher wages and better working conditions—had gathered at the church for a rally, and King was asked to address the people. He had just flown into town that afternoon from Atlanta. Rain pounded on the roof and shutters flapped violently in the wind as King made his way to the podium near the center of the church, according to records of the event...
...just happening in New York. Dance battles are popping up at venues across the U.S., including Atlanta's popular club MJQ Concourse and Miami's Opium Garden and Prive (the site of a much-lampooned Britney Spears--Christina Aguilera dance skirmish last year). "In the clubs you see a lot of battles nowadays," says dancer Wade Robson, 21, creator of the eponymous MTV show (he also plays himself in You Got Served). "Its foundations are in b-boy culture, but now these dancers are also incredible gymnasts, and they incorporate all styles of dance, from tap to salsa...
...seem to be hitting nothing but bogeys these days. First there were the troubles at Augusta National, home of the Masters tournament, where chairman Hootie Johnson gave a bulldog's performance to keep a woman from joining his all-male club last year. Now another exclusive Peach State club, Atlanta's Druid Hills Golf Club, is facing pressure on the gay-rights front in a dispute that has pitted the city's country-club elite against the Atlanta political establishment...