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...waive that. If this act is unprecedented at all, it is so only in its scale. Consider these two: Eric Rudolph, charged with various bombings of abortion clinics and suspected in the bombing at the Olympics in Atlanta, and James Kopp, arrested for the murder of Dr. Bernard Slepian. If they had the opportunity to blow up a building full of abortion providers, do you think they would pause even a moment? Osama bin Laden and Associates are no more evil, or more vicious, than Rudolph, Kopp, et al., just smarter, richer, more numerous, and a lot better connected...
...that groups, rather than individuals, add diversity to a campus. "A white applicant from a disadvantaged rural area in Appalachia may well have more to offer a Georgia public university such as UGA--from the standpoint of diversity--than a nonwhite applicant from an affluent family and a suburban Atlanta high school," the court wrote...
Vincent Synan, dean of religion at Regent University, contends that Jakes and Billy Graham are the only two evangelists who could pack Atlanta's 79,000-capacity Georgia Dome (both have), "but Graham has 50 years of fame and a great organization." Says Lee Grady, editor of the religious magazine Charisma: "We talk about someone being anointed. Jakes knows he's got a special trust...
...opposite. The stores appear as jam-packed as they ever were, with customers dropping unfathomable sums on handbags, and the flights to California and Hawaii are still booked up three months in advance (even if people are drawing on funds they set aside for a rainy day). Driving through Atlanta five years ago, while it was basking in its pre-Olympic boom, I saw broken windows, shuttered stores and people walking lost and disenfranchised down streets without cars or telephones; in recessionary Japan, by contrast, most of the people I see seem to be well dressed, on their...
...GEORGIA: All flights at Hartsfield Atlanta International Airport, the nation's busiest, stopped. The CNN Center, world headquarters of Cable News Network, closed to the public, although journalists at CNN and The Associated Press remained...