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...April 1, four students pitched a blue pup tent in the middle of campus and began a hunger strike, demanding the creation of an ethnic studies department. Several days later, more than 100 protestors barricaded themselves inside Hamilton Hall, forcing classes to meet elsewhere...

Author: By Matthew W. Granade, | Title: Still Demanding Ethnic Studies Now | 6/6/1996 | See Source »

...such guests as Republican National Committee chairman Haley Barbour. Executive producer Marty Ryan, who once ran NBC's Today Show, says the program will move outside the Beltway on occasion, in an effort to broaden its appeal. "What we want to do is bring some new people into the tent on Sunday mornings," he says. Fox has also beefed up its political coverage, hiring Emily Rooney, former executive producer of ABC's World News Tonight, to run a New York-based political unit with 50 staff members. They supplied stations with daily stories during the early primaries, and will cover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: AND IN OTHER NEWS ... | 5/20/1996 | See Source »

...after her mother abandons her. Mat is the roustabout of the title, a circus hand engaged in the unglamorous task of setting up the big top. It is a job Chalfoun knows from experience. On a whim, the dance major answered a help-wanted ad and worked on a tent crew for three years. She says, "I learned that I didn't really have any limits unless I put them on myself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: May 6, 1996 | 5/6/1996 | See Source »

Late in the afternoon, the four members of Hootie & the Blowfish--singer Darius Rucker, guitarist Mark Bryan, bassist Dean Felber and Sonefeld--leave the small bar where they have been hiding/waiting/drinking and head to a tent behind the stage where they are scheduled to perform. The crowd begins murmuring in delight and shock as word spreads that the band is backstage. A chant builds: Hoot-ie! Hoot-ie! But just then--and, if you're a student of outdoor rock festivals, you knew this would happen--it begins to rain. Hard. Noah's ark hard. But at this point, there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: CAN 13 MILLION HOOTIE FANS REALLY BE WRONG? | 4/29/1996 | See Source »

HALEY BARBOUR Party chair who calls G.O.P. a "big tent" fears Buchanan schism will turn it into a sideshow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Mar. 4, 1996 | 3/4/1996 | See Source »

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