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After a three-year debate between Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA) student leaders and University administrators, the question of whether the organization will become independent from the University is closer to being answered.
Who said an Oklahoma-born country crooner like Garth Brooks wouldn't fit in in a tough-minded, hip-hop-favoring metropolis like Manhattan? When Brooks played New York City's Central Park last Thursday before a crowd estimated at between 250,000 (according to the cops) and 750,000...
A few weeks before his big show, Brooks told TIME that he had played Manhattan only once before, early in his career and was eager to return. He was also eager for some big-time publicity: his biggest album, No Fences (1990), sold more than 13 million copies, but his...
But when Brooks' record label, EMI, announced in May that it was closing its New York office, and, in the process, getting rid of some of the people he had depended on over the years to market his albums, Brooks decided to withhold his new record indefinitely. Jimmy Bowen, a...
Even without the new record to plug, Brooks decided to go on with the Central Park show. But he didn't play a single song from his unreleased album, focusing instead on his hits. "What we brought is a lot of our old stuff," he told the crowd. His performance...