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...Lecture notes recently obtained from the office of Fletcher University Professor Cornel West ‘74 may help explain why the esteemed, Afro-coiffed intellectual appears to improvise much of his material. “The Atlanta Compromise represents...[illegible]...brother, Shakira is such a babe,” wrote West, apparently distracted by the sultry Latino pop star’s “Whenever, Wherever” video on TRL, which he had voted for on MTV.com. “Her pulchritudinousness, gyrational hips and tight-fitting pantalones inspire a generation.” Further study...
...control room in Atlanta has 20 TV monitors, enough to follow an entire evening's worth of NBA action. On the giant center monitor, Michael Jordan's Washington Wizards are struggling against the Boston Celtics in TNT's featured Wednesday night game. Charles Barkley, one of the 50 greatest players in NBA history and an analyst for TNT's Inside the NBA half-time and postgame shows, sits by a corner monitor, mesmerized by the action--The West Wing action on NBC. "Prepare for my work?" he snarls, interrupted during a critical presidential plot point. "Hell, I played 16 years...
...plate-glass window in 1997, he was asked whether he had any regrets. Barkley replied, "I regret that we were on the first floor." Now he's verbally tossing NBA players through glass. Unlike other analysts, he refuses to ignore the obvious for the sake of stroking egos. When Atlanta Hawks guard Jacque Vaughn opened the season with an astonishing 23 consecutive missed shots, Barkley brought a Bible to the set and held an impromptu "Pray for Jacque" revival. Informed live that Vaughn hit a lay-up, Barkley exalted. "He scored? The power of prayer...
...State health officials conducted five separate tests, all of which came back positive, and definitive tests at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta confirmed the diagnosis Wednesday...
...thousand miles from ground zero, Houston Mayor Lee Brown tried to use the attack as a ticket to re-election. "Now is not the time for on-the-job training in the mayor's office," said Brown, who ran police departments in New York, Atlanta and Houston and served as Bill Clinton's drug czar before being elected mayor in 1997. But voters were more interested in knowing why he hadn't done more about gridlock and smog. Brown's credentials didn't keep him from a runoff with city councilman Orlando Sanchez, who was in rompers when Brown...