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...March, before the Night Owl had been cancelled, Fiocchi authored a report defending the service. Her report noted that among the country’s eleven largest public transit systems, only Boston and Atlanta lacked 24-hour service during the weekend...
Waxman and Meehan, who are both prominent House Democrats, also allege a conflict of interest in McCallum’s involvement in the case. They note that McCallum, who is a political appointee, is a former partner of Alston and Bird, an Atlanta-based law firm that has represented R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, one of the defendants in the case...
...anymore. The South is finally where hip-hop's at. These days, the biggest acts on Billboard's urban charts and on MTV are Southerners like the Ying Yang Twins, Ludacris, Mike Jones and, of course, Atlanta duo Outkast, which last year became the first hip-hop act to win a Grammy for Album of the Year. The cutting edge of Southern music: a danceable, rapid-fire, bass-heavy rap (frequently blended with R&B) called crunk, fine-tuned and marketed by loud, gold-toothed former DJ Lil Jon and popularized partly through his massive and spectacularly vulgar...
...South. These days, the rappers from the lower states have clothing lines, accessories, even branded beverages (Lil Jon's energy drink is called Crunk Juice), not to mention alliances with the biggest pop artists. The Ying Yang Twins have collaborated with Britney Spears, and Destiny's Child commissioned Atlanta rapper T.I. on a recent single. Lil Jon has produced big crunk hits for Atlantans Usher (Yeah!) and Ciara (Goodies...
...Lincoln was borrowing from Brown by conceiving a similar raid. Douglass had not gone with Brown to Harpers Ferry because he had correctly predicted that Brown would fail in the attempt. But Douglass eagerly accepted Lincoln's proposal and began preparing for the invasion. Sherman's victory at Atlanta, however, all but clinched Lincoln's prospects for re-election and rendered the plan unnecessary...