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...killer already in the room that Friday night? A woman in leopard-spotted pants sat in a booth, talking intently amid the laughter and conversation inside MVP's Interactive Video Cafe, a high-tone supper club in the suburban outskirts of Atlanta. By the front door, a long line of patrons lingered, waiting for tables to open. Against a backdrop of deep blue walls and soft neons, guys in designer shirts and leather jackets leaned against the polished-oak bar, curling glasses of cold beer. Three men in dark coats and blue jeans had rushed to take a table close...
...come here to celebrate his wife's 46th birthday--and he had stayed on even after she left for home feeling tired. There was much more to celebrate: in three days, he would be sworn in as the new sheriff of DeKalb County, in suburban Atlanta. The night was as much in his honor as hers; relatives and close campaign supporters had feted him in the lounge's VIP room earlier. Soon he hoped to make good on his promise to get rid of corruption at the local jail and maybe someday--if he had as much energy...
...year ago in the buckhead section of Atlanta, in the early hours of Monday, a long-running post-Super Bowl party was breaking up at the posh Cobalt Lounge. A scuffle between two groups turned into a fight; a Champagne bottle was broken over someone's head; two men fell. Jacinth Baker, 21, and Richard Lollar, 24, had been knifed and were dying. A big man who had tried to break up the fight jumped into a limo, which wheeled away as shots rang out. The man's name was Ray Lewis, and he was heading into a year that...
When police picked up Lewis at a friend's house outside Atlanta, he was uncooperative. "He lied about everything," says Samuel. Lewis says there was no reason, at that juncture in his life, for him to trust cops more than his friends. He had been cited four previous times for participating in brawls, batteries or assaults and had never been tried. This time he was cuffed, booked and put in jail for two weeks. He likens the days to "hell." He didn't call his five-year-old son Ray-Ray, because he did not want to have to explain...
When the Super Bowl is held in Miami, the glitz and glamour of Florida's crown jewel proves too distracting for the players. In 1999, when Super Bowl XXXIII was played at Pro Player Stadium, Atlanta safety Eugene Robinson tried to purchase the sexual services of an undercover officer and it was reported that some of the other Falcons were quite the "dirty birds" at various South Beach hot spots. Falcons Coach Dan Reeves did not impose stringent curfews on his team and it translated into a 34-19 demolition at the hands of the Denver Broncos (although...