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...Washington isn't a place for the softheaded or tenderfooted. Walk into one of those happy-hour joints on Connecticut Avenue any weekday after 5 p.m., when the Piedmont winds are racing through the marshes and lobbyists have dispersed their Benjamin Franklins to the elected officials who call this marbled burg home, and you're likely to have to face off some Pellegrino-bloated Republican freshperson, waving an assault weapon or, worse, a bill to bring those hand cannons back to every suburbanite with a dandelion-free lawn to defend. Which is when you have to talk fast or else...
ATLANTA: While protesting that Richard Jewell is only one of several possible suspects in the Olympics bombing, F.B.I. agents were sending evidence packages of nails, bits of tape, sweepings and other materials found in Jewell's Atlanta apartment and Piedmont, Ga. house to the FBI crime lab in Washington, questioning colleagues at his previous job and searching his former residence. Piedmont College officials were questioned after contacting the agency. Jewell, a former public safety officer on the campus, 80 miles northeast of Atlanta, allegedly told the college security chief upon quitting to take the job at the AT&T pavilion...
...doesn't take a Harvard education to change the world, Linda Stout, a social activist and the founder of the Piedmont Peace Project, told a group of about 40 people gathered in Harvard Hall on Saturday...
...Stout founded the Piedmont Peace Project, which works on voter registration and community empowerment in her native area. This fall, she will release a book, Bridging the Class Divide...
DIED. BROWNIE MCGHEE, 80, guitarist-singer; in Oakland, California. McGhee and harmonica player Sonny Terry brought the folk-flavored blues of the Carolina Piedmont to the world, influencing generations of rockers, folkies and bluesmen...