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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Karenna has always had a healthy sense of fun. In high school she raised money for her student government by wrestling a pig into the backseat of a friend's car and raffling off votes for which teacher would have to kiss it. She is the first to show up at a party. And she doesn't care much for Washington, even though that's where her father and grandfather taught her to ride her bike, on the Capitol grounds, and where she went to school. She shares her father's attachment to Tennessee, where she was born. "Everyone says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Democratic Convention: The Daughter Also Rises | 8/21/2000 | See Source »

...dogs sold briskly, despite the remonstrance of a porcine Jiminy Cricket--a People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals protester in a pig suit shouting slogans at waiting patrons...

Author: By Matthew F. Quirk, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Protesters Gather in Philidelphia | 8/4/2000 | See Source »

...pig complained about the lack of vegetarian food, a preferred diet for many forward-thinking activists, and vented against the UNITY2000 board...

Author: By Matthew F. Quirk, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Protesters Gather in Philidelphia | 8/4/2000 | See Source »

...banners alternated with chanters ("Hey, hey! Ho, ho! Poverty has got to go!"); a 13-wheelchair convoy of accessible housing advocates; and a giant elephant head with a cleverly hinged trunk. One protesting canine had "LOVE" shaved into his flank (missed, it seems, by the PETA contingent in giant pig costumes who cruised through the throng in a red Mustang convertible). Tuesday's demonstrators primarily targeted homelessness and poverty, with the occasional chant against HMOs and for the abolition of private property. Protesters were by and large young and white, with an odd passel here and there of mostly white...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hey, Commish — Love the Shorts! | 8/1/2000 | See Source »

CARRIE, 1988 Not even diva Betty Buckley could save this adaptation of Stephen King's novel, which folded after five performances. In one scene, teenagers smeared fake blood on their chests and sang, "Kill the pig, pig, pig...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bombs over Broadway | 7/3/2000 | See Source »

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