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...Cobb County, Georgia, Speaker Newt Gingrich's district, Republican state senator Chuck Clay fought unsuccessfully to prevent the intermingling of the county's transit system with that of metropolitan Atlanta because he feared that the local mall would be invaded by "bands of urban Atlanta teenagers...who aren't there to try on suits." In Pelham, New York, the mayor recently called for the demolition of a footbridge that spans the Hutchinson River Parkway and links wealthy, largely white Pelham with poorer, racially mixed Mount Vernon. And Washington's exclusive Georgetown neighborhood, home to many members of Congress, opted...
...Team Foxcatcher, the elite squad of wrestlers the millionaire supported on his Pennsylvania estate, had to balance their mourning with concerns about the future. Not only is Schultz, their friend and team leader, dead, but their patron is in jail--just as they are preparing to qualify for the Atlanta Olympics...
...training regimen at Foxcatcher is completely in chaos. In addition to the top-ranked Schultz, who was planning an Olympic comeback, the wrestling team included at least five other likely contenders in Atlanta. Now, the remaining members face losing not only financial support from Du Pont--some members received up to $800 a month--but also use of one of the world's best wrestling centers. Says heavyweight Kurt Angle: "I'm not sure what happens to us as a team." If the club dissolves, as seems likely, "it will be missed," says Art Martori of the rival Sunkist Kids...
...Atlanta Journal-Constitution has calculated how much a family of four will pay for a vacation to the Games. Out-of-towners with an average of $1,500 worth of tickets will pay $2,600 to stay six nights in a motel about 100 miles from town. (Some travel agencies require a minimum booking of six days even if tourists don't have tickets for all those days.) The visitors will then have to get up before dawn to be loaded on a bus for the two-hour trip to the city, where they'll pay about...
...Atlanta has several un-Olympic venues: its various adult entertainment centers. Now, however, Mayor Bill Campbell wants to clean things up. Last week he blocked plans to open a lingerie-modeling studio across the street from Centennial Olympic Park, a 21-acre downtown plaza, and Olympic City, Coca-Cola's $20 million theme park. Campbell said the !X!CLUSIVE modeling studio violated the zoning code, which requires such adult-entertainment enterprises to be at least 1,000 ft. from parks. A city agency is reconsidering !X!CLUSIVE's request...