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After college, the group began to tour full time. The Southeast has a fertile music scene with plenty of places for young bands to find an audience, from the Georgia Theater in Athens to the Variety Playhouse in Atlanta to Rockafellas, the Elbow Room and Green Streets in Columbia (young bands on this circuit don't earn much; if you're in it for the money, move to Seattle). Hootie fitted right into the Southern pop-rock scene, playing clubs, bars, parties: any parties--birthday parties, frat parties, you name it. They would would sing REM and U2 covers...
...themselves scholars and experts, are arguing about events that took place 2,000 years ago. Christianity and all other religions are in the realm of faith alone, and the best we can do is exercise the freedom to decide for ourselves what is right and believable. MELISSA R. WEBER Atlanta...
...couple of prominent runners will be missing from the men's marathon in Atlanta. Hwang Young-cho of South Korea, who won the 1992 gold and collapsed after crossing the finish line, will not defend his title. Hampered by an ankle injury, Hwang finished 29th in an Olympic-trial race last month and a few weeks later retired at age 26. Kenya's Moses Tanui won the Boston Marathon--his first victory in a 26.2-mile race--but said he will focus on the 10,000 meters in Atlanta...
WASHINGTON: Justice Department officials arrested two Georgia men on charges of constructing pipe bombs but denied a CBS report that the suspects were plotting to set off explosives to disrupt the Atlanta Summer Olympic Games. "This is a couple of militia types who built things that can be made into pipe bombs, but we have no information of any plan to use them for the Olympics," said one law enforcement official. "The Olympics only came up once during the investigation when at one of their meetings one member said if a bomb goes off at the Olympics they would...
...Atlanta Games' Internet site for ticket sales www.atlanta.olympic.org has turned decidedly low-tech. Officials had said E-mail orders would be confirmed within 24 hours. Since the Website is not connected to a mainframe computer, however, many orders are being processed by overburdened phone operators. As a result, confirmation often takes two weeks or more. Things have been further confused because some worried customers have repeated their orders...