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Planning a wedding and an election victory at the same time, Fields is confident that the House will be his first home as a newlywed. A native north Floridian, he believes Corrine Brown's narrow 1994 victory won't sustain her in the newly drawn Third--the district is 11.5% less black and as much as 20% more Republican than in 1994. Fields supports the line-item veto, reforms to cut taxes and make the tax code simpler and more equitable, and a balanced budget...
...week progressed, attention shifted back to swimming's newest stars: three American teenagers. "I was so excited, I was, like 'Wow!'" declared Baltimorean Beth Botsford, 15, after striking gold in the 100-m backstroke. Brooke Bennett, a 16-year-old Floridian, won the 800-m freestyle, leaving a tearful Janet Evans, the queen of long-distance swimming, in sixth place. The youngest U.S. medalist, California's Amanda Beard, 14--who had her parents bring her teddy bear to the stands--captured two individual silvers in the breaststroke and a relay gold...
...Dole in Floridian shorts. President Clinton in jogging nylons. Maybe Congress should change the presidential age requirement from 35 to 21. At least then we wouldn't be subjected to aging legs...
Chiles was all courtliness: "And if I might reply to you in Cracker?" (a slang term for descendants of white Floridian pioneers). "I know how to lead. I know how to sell," he said, launching into an example. "Now," he concluded, "do you understand Cracker?" If Bush wants to hand Chiles his first defeat in 36 years of public life, he may need a few lessons...
Looking for freedom and food, the Cuban refugees who hauled themselves desperately onto Floridian shores last week told wild, hungry stories of how fellow countrymen tried to take advantage of the food shortage. They talked of condoms melted on top of pizzas and sold to the unsuspecting; of rag mops left in water to soften, then dried, cut up and served with egg on a sandwich; of apples that cost a month's wages. "We are like lambs," says Elvis Sierra Laborit, a bakery worker from Havana, who is not a rebellious man. "We will be eating grass soon." Even...