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Fortunately, Minnesota will not win the World Series this year. They will falter to rich teams down the stretch—-once money, again, wins out. This year’s champion will be from New York or Boston or Los Angeles or Atlanta...
That was a fair description of old-fashioned literary inbreeding, of how books once grew out of other books. But authors who try such a stunt these days may find their work unpublishable. Such was the clear message delivered by Charles Pannell Jr., a U.S. District Court judge in Atlanta, when he issued an injunction barring the scheduled June publication of a novel by Alice Randall called The Wind Done Gone. The ruling was a victory for the Margaret Mitchell estate, which claimed that Randall's novel infringes on the copyright of Gone With the Wind...
...mulatto daughter and the half sister of Scarlett, er, Other. Cynara's diary forms the basis of The Wind Done Gone. She writes of her childhood at Cotton Farm and Tata (Tara) and then of events after the period covered in GWTW: her freedom and her life in Atlanta as R's mistress and eventual wife. Along the way, she reports on the news back at Tata, including the death of Other from a fall down the stairs...
...conservatism?" Good question. Bush and his rapacious followers are doing their best to reverse years of hard-fought progressive measures designed to protect people and preserve our environment. I have two questions of my own: Where's the outrage, and where the heck is Al Gore? AL DALE Atlanta...
What American export is hot in Japan these days? Cinnamon buns--big, gooey pastries with an aroma that could send you into insulin shock. In 1999, when Atlanta-based Cinnabon opened its first outlet there, 300 people lined up to buy its buns, says Gregg Kaplan, president of the chain. Rather than try to sell cinnamon buns in Japan on its own, the company partnered with Sugakico, a successful operator of a chain of ramen-noodle restaurants. Two years later, sales are five times as high at Japanese outlets as at those in the U.S. of comparable size and location...