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Perhaps the hardship began when an Atlanta paper questioned Black's decision to attend Harvard. It criticized her choice of a school with a lesser basketball tradition than the southern powers. It mentioned her equally-talented AAU teammate, who chose the University of Georgia. "Kelly Black: Harvard?" the headline read...
...Timothy McVeigh involved with bank robbers indicted last week in Philadelphia? Was the bombing of Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta plotted in the Northwest? Last week two of the country's most infamous bombings were tenuously linked to crimes allegedly wrought by white supremacists. The connections, mostly speculative, have intrigued investigators and provided conspiracy theorists with much to ponder...
From Spokane to Atlanta? The Aryan Republican Army and the Phineas Priesthood share two things: the ideology of Christian Identity, which holds that northern Europeans are the chosen people of God; and a current round of prosecution for bank robbery. After one of the biggest manhunts in the Northwest, three members of the Priesthood were arrested in October and charged in a string of bombings and robberies that occurred last year: on April 1 masked men robbed the Spokesman-Review, a Spokane, Washington, daily, and minutes later robbed and bombed a nearby bank; on July 12 a local Planned Parenthood...
...ATLANTA: A day after making a $51 billion education initiative the centerpiece of his State of Union address, Bill Clinton was in Georgia drumming up support for a key part of his plan: college tax credits aimed squarely at the middle class. Under Clinton's plan, families making less than $100,000 can take either a $1,500 per student tax credit, labeled a HOPE scholarship, for each of the first two years their children attend college, or take up to $10,000 in tax deductions for post-secondary education and training. At face value, the tax break is good...
...incredulous grandmother tells TIME, "I know all about what happened. I was there. JonBenet had climbed up on a stool to look at her hamsters in their cage, and she somehow pulled the whole cage down on top of her." JonBenet's aunt Pam Paugh, who lives in Atlanta, has had about enough of all the rumors. "Drug abuse? Absolutely not!" she tells TIME. As for her sister Patsy's obsession with pageants, says Paugh: "The fact is JonBenet was in her first pageant a month before she turned five. She did nine pageants in her life--nine, not dozens...