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...57th minute, junior midfielder Mike Peller sent a cross into the area, but senior Wells Mangurm was unable to redirect the pass into the net. Seven minutes later, freshman midfielder Spencer George had a shot from 20 yards out, but his effort sailed wide right...
Earlier this year, when Democrats were making a list of Republican Senators who would be easy to beat in November, Michigan's Spencer Abraham looked like the Big Easy. A former staff member for Vice President Dan Quayle, he was elected in 1994 as part of the Newt Gingrich insurgency. The state's first G.O.P. Senator in more than 20 years, Abraham went to Washington, then went nowhere. As a Senator he focused on topics like immigrant visas for highly skilled workers--important to business, but not the hottest of hot buttons for voters--while telephone calls from constituents went...
...story begins in 1996, when Spencer Elementary School teacher-librarian Terri Nalls had a problem. Her students, 92% of them low income, couldn't read a stop sign let alone a book. She wondered if Mike Brumby, who ran the Tift County Foundation for Educational Excellence, could help her buy a reading program called Accelerated Reader...
...Spencer had the lowest scores in town, so Brumby said yes. And by the end of that school year, townsfolk were slackjawed. The 400 Spencer students, many from homes in which neither parent could read, had devoured 25,000 books. And Brumby began thinking, WELCOME TO TIFTON, READING CAPITAL OF THE WORLD...
...nice ring to it, everyone agreed. But how long had he been in the sun? "It's rural Southern Georgia, and the illiteracy rate pushes 30% or 40%," admits Brumby. But if Spencer students had gone freakishly bookworm, why couldn't every child and adult in Tift County (pop. 35,000)? A big banner went up outside the town library, with weekly updates on the number of books read. The goal? One million. Everyone but the students thought Brumby was whacked...