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...Yankees came back from a presumably insurmountable deficit, winning all three games in Atlanta, then beating the defending world champions 3-2 in Yankee Stadium Saturday night. This Series had all the elements of a true Fall Classic. There was the unlikely hero off the bench: Yankee pinch hitter Jim Leyritz clubbing a three-run homer off Mark Wohlers to tie the score in the eighth inning of Game 4. There was the unlikely goat: sure-handed Atlanta center fielder Marquis Grissom dropping a fly ball to set up the only run of Game 5. There were the nightly chess...
...moment, I could see the Braves moving back to Boston, where they belong. The players are trotting north on the interstate, as calmly as if they'd all been ordered to the outfield for some stretching drills. Behind them, stumbling in an effort to keep up, a pack of Atlanta boosters are shouting, "Hey, wait a minute...just a second now...you can't do this...this is a world-class city...
CLEARED. RICHARD JEWELL, 33, Atlanta security guard; of involvement with the Olympics bombing; by federal prosecutors. Initially labeled a hero for pointing authorities to a suspicious-looking knapsack that contained a bomb, Jewell later became a victim of law-enforcement leaks and overzealous news media...
...needs the same, and then some. "AT&T needs someone who can rally the troops beyond their distractions," says Jeffrey Kagan, president of Atlanta consultants Kagan Telecom. Distractions? Long-distance market share is falling, profits are sagging at its credit-card business, and head count is being slashed as the company splits itself into three pieces. For Walter and AT&T, it's remake-it-or-break-it time...
BORN: April 9, 1942, Birmingham EDUCATION: Morehouse College, B.A., 1964; Howard U, J.D., 1967; Atlanta U, M.B.A., 1970 FAMILY: Wife, Mary Franklin; two children RELIGION: Baptist MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Lawyer POLITICAL CAREER: Alabama House, 1975-81, Senate, 1981-93; U.S. House, 1992- ADDRESS: 1614 Third Avenue North, Birmingham...