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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...
...chills in the second debate," said Matthew Coffey, 43, the only interviewee in three days who was wildly passionate about either candidate, and possibly the only person without malaria who got chills during any of the debates. Coffey, who owns an advertising company in Brandon, said Bush is going to shrink the government, whack taxes, let people invest their own Social Security funds, keep the U.S. out of foreign skirmishes and give parents school vouchers. "I listen to Rush Limbaugh all the time," Coffey said. "And Rush is right. Do you know what I mean? Rush is right...
...opening play foreshadowed the entire game. Brown's Brandon Buchanon returned the opening kickoff 97 yards to begin Brown's thrashing of Fordham...
...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...