Word: brandon
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...could determine the next bell captain of the Lincoln Bedroom, Greg and Virginia Harrell feel the same way as a lot of their neighbors. Vice President Al Gore, or Texas governor George Bush? They were more excited about their options at the Bill O' Fare Food Court in the Brandon Town Center Mall on a recent family outing...
...Wayne Garcia, a Tampa political consultant, believes the race will be decided east of the city, in places like Brandon, a microcosm of the mostly white middle-class suburbs along I-4. Brandon, with roughly 120,000 people and a mall instead of a downtown, is America. It's a sprawling, unincorporated, amorphous mess, as devoid of soul as the candidates themselves. With two Waffle Houses within a mile of each other and tract houses sprouting like mushrooms, the place is still growing daily, and the politics of growth is always more conservative than the politics of decline...
...opening play foreshadowed the entire game. Brown's Brandon Buchanon returned the opening kickoff 97 yards to begin Brown's thrashing of Fordham...
...hell," says Brandon of his first year at Baraka. He kept talking back to his teachers, again and again, and landed in the "boma," a crude, isolated group of tents surrounded by thornbushes that Baraka used for punishment. For smaller matters like swearing or sleeping in class, discipline worked on a point system. Staying out of trouble earned students safaris, video nights and trips to the Kenyan capital of Nairobi, three hours south of the school...
...Brandon had never really studied before; he hadn't brought a single book home from school. At Baraka he had to adjust to the rigorous classes designed to raise the students up to grade level. That typically meant cramming five years of learning into two years...