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Soon, the 80,000 fans finish the pre-game festivities and begin streaming into a large stadium--maybe in Athens, Ga., Auburn, Ala. or Clemson, S.C.--to continue the weekend's religious ceremonies...
...little town of Tucker, Ga., was transformed as the Tigers marched to a perfect regular season and into the state semi-finals before losing in overtime...
...didn't take long for the jokes to start percolating on Capitol Hill after President Clinton's unexpectedly lengthy and rambling State of the Union address . Rep. Jack Kingston (R-Ga.) described Clinton's address as "a great marching speech. It went left-right, left-right, left-right." Congressional Democrats said they were trying to figure out in whichdirection Clinton is trying to leadthem. "I could close my eyes and hear him talking about increasing opportunity but requiring responsibility," offered Sen. John Breaux (D-La.). Said conservative Democratic Rep. Mike Parker of Mississippi: "He opposed every moderate effort...
Nearly one-third of all American children are now in families headed by a single parent, the Census Bureau reported today. Perhaps surprisingly, the highest concentration of single-parent families (37.3 percent) is found in quiet Albany, Ga., just 40 miles from former President Jimmy Carter's hometown of Plains. Overall, the report says, 30 percent of American families and 63 percent of the country's black families are headed by single parents. New York City came in second in the survey, with 35.9 percent of children in single-parent homes...
Former Secretary of State Dean Rusk, who guided the Kennedy Administration through the Cuban Missile Crisis and led the Johnson Administration deeper into Vietnam, died last night from heart disease in his Athens, Ga., home. Touted as one of Kennedy's team of "best and brightest," Rusk stayed in the post through the end of Johnson's tenure in 1969 -- despite criticism (even from one of his sons) over his advocacy of the flagging Vietnam war effort. For that, he never apologized: "Because of this nation's commitments, I had a duty to perform; to try to prevent North Vietnam...