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...much fun. A large section of downtown near Olympic Park remained blocked off Saturday. Fans with tickets to the hotly anticipated track-and- field events Saturday arrived to find flags flying at half-staff and a dense cordon of security around Olympic Stadium. Basketball lovers at the Georgia Dome were forced to wait in extra-long lines, as several entrances were closed. And at Lake Lanier, where rowing finals were taking place, soldiers toting machine guns patrolled the grandstands. It did not look much like America. But it was. --Reported by Mark Coatney, Adam Cohen, Sally B. Donnelly, Barry Hillenbrand...
Even though there's a national election being run out of downtown D.C., everybody here knows that the business of the nation is taking place elsewhere: The coast of Long Island. The Georgia Dome. The congressional districts where first-term Republicans battle to save the revolution and their seats...
...world has seen, especially of himself. His self-portraits invite comparison with those of Rembrandt, and the best of them justify it. He begins, in his own images, as a wild man, a solitary, an uncouth glaring peasant with greasy hair massed on either side of the pale dome of a bald head; he ends, in his last years, as a kind of sage. Between the extremes is a painting like the Self-Portrait (Portrait of the Artist with a Rose Background), with its powerfully modeled head, "formed," as Rainer Maria Rilke wrote after...
...finished with him," insists Franklin of his father. "He's a warhorse. Daddy in his latter years is having some of his biggest meetings. He set the attendance record for the SkyDome in Toronto. He set the attendance record for the Georgia Dome. Broke it." And then the son is suddenly full of the Spirit. "As our society falls apart, as crime increases, when, as the Bible says, the love of most grows cold, people want to know, Does God care? Am I just here on earth to breathe so many cubic meters of oxygen and eat so many cows...
...forest floor is less than half what it usually is." Significant rain doesn't usually reach the region until July or August. So far, U.S. Forest Service officials have been able to contain the blazes before they caused extensive damage to private property. Last week's 16,000-acre Dome Fire threatened the Los Alamos National Laboratories, where much of the early research on atomic energy was conducted, but no damage to the station was done...