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Explains why the Atlanta-based Georgia-Pacific Corp. has focused on branding. Introduction of paper towels and toilet paper; Drawbacks of selling paper products on the basis on price; Includes commodity price gyrations.

Reports that Willamette Industries Inc., a maker of office paper, agreed to buy a mill in Port Wentworth, Georgia from the Smurfit-Stone Container Corporation. Significance of the agreement.

Questions why John F. Schmitt, faculty adviser of the Fort Valley State University student newspaper `The Peachite,' was fired. How the newspaper has published more issues and also won three awards at a Georgia journalism conference in January of 1998 when under Schmitt's supervision; The critical stories published in the paper, including the controversy that involved Josephine D. Davis, the school's vice-president for academic affairs.

The article informs that the collection of Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. will be given to Morehouse College in Georgia, his alma mater and will not be sold at any auction.

Reports on the raid conducted by Georgia state and federal agencies on the office of "Augusta Focus," a black weekly in Georgia as of September 4, 2003. Reason behind the raid according to the owner of the weekly Charles W. Walker; Investigation agencies involved in the raid; Arguments given by Walker to defend himself.

Reports that the University of Georgia Bulldogs men's basketball team won its game against the Purdue University Boilermakers in the second round of the National Collegiate Athletic Association's 1995-1996 season. Performances of the two teams during the game.

Reports on the ruling of the Georgia Supreme Court regarding the right of the University of Georgia student newspaper to send a reporter to proceedings and to review records of the Student Organization Court. Court ruling on state open-records; Appeal to federal courts; Argument of the lawyers for the student newspaper; Usual cases in student courts.

Presents information on the possible transfer of civil rights documents and artifacts from the King Center, an archive and institute in Atlanta, Georgia to two universities. Information on the King Center; Universities listed; What the King Center archive includes; Comments from Gary Krull, a spokesman for the National Endowment for the Humanities.

The author offers his opinion about the Celebration of a New Baptist Covenant in Atlanta, Georgia. He cites that a featured speaker at the gathering introduced politician Al Gore as a prophet. He presumes that the Covenant could be a liberal response to the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), considering its dissatisfaction about losing several leadership elections in the SBC. He mentions that the issues tackled in the gathering include ways for churches to help immigrants fill out citizenship papers and ending prostitution.

Reports the plan of Georgia-Pacific Corp. of Atlanta, Georgia to sell stocks in its Unisource Worldwide paper-distribution unit to Bain Capital Inc.

Focuses on the Ted Hughes Papers at Emory University. Archive that opens a window on Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath's life and art; Poems, `Birthday Letters,' by Hughes; Comments by Stephen Enniss, curator of the literary collections at Emory; Contents of the archive; Focus on the two poets' seven-year marriage.

Comments on the papers of Ted Hughes that were collected by the library at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. The growing interest in Hughes in the late 1990s; His book `Birthday Letters'; Hughes' relationship with poet and author Sylvia Plath; His death in 1998; How Plath's death in 1963 affected Hughes.