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Over the summer, a day trader in Atlanta shot his family and coworkers, and white supremacists in Los Angeles and Chicago went on rampages against people on the streets. Last spring, the world's eyes were riveted on Littleton, Colo., as two students methodically shot students and a teacher, turning their suburban high school into a brutal and haunting crime scene. In the past few years, equally unrepentant students turned guns on their peers in Oregon and Alabama. And this is to say nothing of the guns used on lovers and rival gangs, against police and innocent bystanders, in every...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Curbing the Death Toll | 9/24/1999 | See Source »

Recreation Atlanta Braves, Atlanta Hawks, World Championship Wrestling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The CBS-Viacom Merger: World Of The Media Giants | 9/20/1999 | See Source »

...British edition, chiefly through Internet orders, swamped bookstores nationwide. From El Centro, Calif., to Littleton, N.H., many stores opened for business at 12 a.m.; others offered customers tea and crumpets or steep initial discounts. Barbara Babbit Kaufman, president and founder of the Chapter 11 bookstore chain in Atlanta, reports selling more Harry Potter books in the first three hours of business than Tom Wolfe's novel A Man in Full, sold during its first day of availability last November. "Tom Wolfe's was set in Atlanta," she says, "so it was the hottest book we'd ever had." Until, that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wild About Harry Potter | 9/20/1999 | See Source »

When Sean Meeker reported to training camp on Aug. 27, he was surprised to find a white practice jersey with a number in the 30's--a number usually reserved for the defensive secondary. Meeker, who played cornerback and wide receiver at Chattahoochee High School in Atlanta, was hoping to try his hand at the offensive side of the ball...

Author: By Kevin E. Meyers, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Five Freshmen Have Chance to Make Difference Right Away | 9/17/1999 | See Source »

Hiatt began his career in journalism with the Atlanta Journal in 1979, and went on to cover military affairs for the Post. He later led the paper's foreign desks in Japan and in Moscow...

Author: By Joyce K. Mcintyre, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Graduate to Head Post Editorials | 9/15/1999 | See Source »

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