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...surviving saints of the civil rights movement, John Lewis, now a Democratic Congressman from Atlanta, remains most committed to its original creed. Unlike black-power advocate Stokely Carmichael, who ousted him from the leadership of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in 1966, Lewis never abandoned his belief in a utopian "beloved community" in which all men and women are created equal regardless of their race. Unquestioning faith in that idea led Lewis from his family's sharecropper farm in Alabama to the front lines of the battle for racial justice during the 1960s; he never flinched as he suffered arrests...
...works brilliantly. 6: The Godfather, Part 2 (1974). C'mon -- the fishing boat scene? The abortion speech? Admit it -- this is a better film than Part 1, even without Sonny. 5: Gone With the Wind (1939). How can you not like a film that features the burning of Atlanta? 4: The Wizard of Oz (1939). To understand how great this movie is, remember this: Generations of us faithfully watched it on TV once a year, and loved it every time. 3: Badlands (1973). Highly underappreciated -- it's shocking this didn't even make the AFI's list. 2: Citizen Kane...
Judging from what I saw at the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Atlanta last week, Blow Up Stuff would be popular with lots of other gamers too. Never before have so many folks been assembled in one place to grab onto force-feedback joysticks and to bludgeon, laser-beam and Gatling-gun one another--at least not in peacetime. Halls the size of 35 football fields were jammed with computer- and video-game companies showing off their latest wares, in the understated tone that is a hallmark of such conventions. My fillings still rattle like castanets when I speak...
...drafted in the fourth round by the Atlanta Hawks, back 100 years ago when they had 12 rounds in the draft [there are now two]," Brown recalls. "I was one of the last rookies cut, and I thought I would be on the team, so I couldn't believe it. I cried and hid in the house for two weeks...
With children ages 3 to 12 the fastest-growing slice of the software market, it's no wonder so many kids' titles are previewing at this week's Electronic Entertainment Expo in Atlanta. A digital Elmo teaches pre-schoolers their ABC's and 1-2-3's in two of the first "edutainment" titles for the Sony PlayStation. And move over, Quicken: a Beanie Babies CD-ROM helps kids track their cuddly assets and guides them to some online trading sites...