TOP OF THE WORLD IN ATLANTA

"Man for man, the Braves had neither the talents nor the physiques of the Indians," says Steve Wulf. "In fact, you might see better builds in the local country-club locker room than in the Atlanta clubhouse, which actually does have a miniature golf course. But as manager Bobby Cox says, 'They may not look like much, but Greg Maddux, Mark Lemke, Tom Glavine, Rafael Belliard--those little guys can play for me any day of the week. We don't have a lot of superstars. But we do have a team.'" The best in the world, in fact.

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RAY KELLY, New York City Police Commissioner, on the arrest of a New Jersey man in one of the nation's most baffling missing-children cases, the disappearance more than three decades ago of 6-year-old Etan Patz.
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