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...Visitor from Berlin...
News Editor for This Issue: Matthew M. Hoffman '91 Night Editors: Julian E. Barnes '93 Matthew M. Hoffman '91 Mary Louise Kelly '93 Gregory B. Kasowski '93 Joseph R. Palmore '91 Philip P. Pan '93 Rebecca L. Walkowitz '92 Feature Editors: Jonathan M. Berlin '92 Eric S. Solowey '91 Sports Editor: Andrew D. Fine '91 Photo Editors: Gregory Engel '93 Kimberly A. Ziev '93 Business Editor: Raymond B.B. Nomizu '91 Copy Editor Justin R.P. Ingersoll...
...significance of the international spectacle goes beyond money and real estate--it has to do with Atlanta's identity and self-esteem. For a city known primarily for peach trees and Scarlett O'Hara, the prospect of being placed alongside Rome, Berlin, Stockholm and Tokyo is dizzying...
Atlanta may not be Athens--or even Berlin or Tokyo--but it is nonetheless deserving of the committee's recognition. Athens represents hide-bound tradition and a sclerotic inability to break away from the past. Atlanta represents vitality, mobility and a constant eye on the future. Not to mention the best peach cobbler and pecan pie on Earth...
...will remember, of course, that Bernard Samson, England's rough-cut intelligence agent in Berlin, was bamboozling communist Stasi operatives with great success until his beautiful and highborn wife Fiona defected to East Germany and set up shop as a KGB colonel, no less. This breach of marital etiquette caused Samson endless problems -- how to find a suitable nanny for the children, whether to marry his young mistress, how to prove that he himself was not a Soviet mole, and so on -- detailed moodily and lengthily in the two most recent novels of Deighton's double trilogy, Spy Hook...