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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Speaking to an audience of about 200 people in a tent set up on the Radcliffe Yard, Bundles, who is producer of ABC World News Tonight, spoke of her own time at Radcliffe and the lessons she learned in college...

Author: By Anna D. Wilde, | Title: Radcliffe Convocation Welcomes '97 Women | 9/21/1993 | See Source »

After the first-years receive their packets full of information about College life, a horde of eager organizations will and await them under a yellow and white striped tent outside, hoping to snare them early...

Author: By Melissa Lee, | Title: 1,606 First Years to Register Today | 9/13/1993 | See Source »

Woodruff may have learned his way with people as the son of a tent-preaching Oklahoma evangelist; his job was to take around the collection plate, and by the age of 10, he was giving his own sermons. After joining the CIA in 1975, he thrived on Third World crises. He loathed neckties and wore cowboy boots and sometimes a ten-gallon hat. But he was no cowboy on the job. Joseph O'Neill, who served with Woodruff in Africa and is now charge d'affaires in Eritrea, considered him a rock-steady operative who "knew exactly what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Casualty of Chaos | 8/23/1993 | See Source »

...Village, a man named Ellisdee Rick is selling an "LSD Flight Simulator," a kaleidoscope- like device that straps on over the eyes: "It's the ultimate binocular looking into the neuroverse. It will probably replace the frisbee, and has already replaced Rubik's Cube." In the speaker's tent, a more serious exploration of the mind is under way as teenage audience members step onto a central stage and debate. "Utah is a hypocritical state." "You got the choice before you get pregnant." "If it's wrong, it's between me and God." The ringmaster-moderator is 23-year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dispatches Latter-Day Grunge | 7/12/1993 | See Source »

...September more than 1,600 members of the class of 1997 will arrive to take up residence at Harvard, and their tuition-spending parents expect more than an excuse and a tent. Harvard, after all, is not a commuter campus. The upperclass houses and overflow housing are filled to the seams come late September...

Author: By Marion B. Gammill, | Title: The Facelift of the Yard | 6/29/1993 | See Source »

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