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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign 2000: Is It Over Yet? | 11/6/2000 | See Source »

...Bidya is once more a microcosm of what is being planned by the politicians. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak's advisers are sketching out "unilateral separation," which they will impose on the Palestinians if Yasser Arafat declares statehood, something that could happen as soon as this month. That means choking off the Palestinian economy from Israeli oxygen. "Separation is economic war," says Helo. "It is a war of hunger, and it is very dangerous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israel's Last-Ditch Peace Plan | 11/6/2000 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign Fatigue May Get the Most Votes | 10/28/2000 | See Source »

...Cold War, crumbling in a hail of concrete. Feb. 3, 1959: The Day the Music Died-the innocence and naivet of early rock 'n roll and the '50s burning up and crashing to earth. These are moments of myth when intangible and supernatural forces reduce to a microcosm, a specific time and place where zeitgeists materialize for an instant before shattering...

Author: By Jon Natchez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Sympathy for the Devil: 'Gimme Shelter' Reveals the Bad Vibes of the Sixties | 10/27/2000 | See Source »

...last two weeks of this race look to be a microcosm of the summer. Bush grabs lead, for reasons that still baffle - Freshness? Likeability? Conservatism? - Gore chugs back on the issues but seems, for a good-times incumbent, to have a curious problem closing the deal. And though the polls are the prevailing wind, the campaign will be won in swing-state bunkers. You want a game of inches? The death of Mel Carnahan in Missouri may have won it for Bush already...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Here It Is — TIME.com's Homestretch 101! | 10/24/2000 | See Source »

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