Word: downtown
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Atlanta has several un-Olympic venues: its various adult entertainment centers. Now, however, Mayor Bill Campbell wants to clean things up. Last week he blocked plans to open a lingerie-modeling studio across the street from Centennial Olympic Park, a 21-acre downtown plaza, and Olympic City, Coca-Cola's $20 million theme park. Campbell said the !X!CLUSIVE modeling studio violated the zoning code, which requires such adult-entertainment enterprises to be at least 1,000 ft. from parks. A city agency is reconsidering !X!CLUSIVE's request...
...will never forget the feeling of energy and generational solidarity that day as we marched through downtown Boston. Students represented schools as diverse as Harvard, the University of Massachusetts, Fitchburg State, Roxbury Community College and Wellesley. And even more significantly, the coalition of so many student groups with a single purpose told me that from our splintered society, people were hearing a unified cry: the voice of our generation...
That advantage was erased when senior guard Amy Reinhard (six pts., two ass.) drained the first of her shots from downtown to give the Crimson a lead they held until the 10:39 mark of the first half. Eight minutes later another Proudfit three gave Harvard the edge once again after Feaster had tied the game...
...gives way to clear, cool vocals by Lorna Harris. The lyrics are lousy, like something John Lennon might have tossed off on a bad day--"You and I/ Like birds we'll fly"--but an invitingly eclectic musical environment is created. Wander in and find yourself transported to a downtown dance floor. In Tibet...
...March 19. After talks with NATO officials, Krajisnik said that if the handover is not deferred, many Serbs will abandon the city, "and those who stay might organize armed resistance." The day before he spoke, one or more Serbs fired an antitank rocket that hit a streetcar in downtown Sarajevo, killing a 55-year-old woman. But Carl Bildt, civilian administrator of the peace accords, insists the transfer of power will go ahead...