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...completely freaked out about meningitis. Our roommate's uncle is a doctor and her aunt gets really paranoid. So she's been telling us all year that we need to get our vaccine...

Author: By Victoria C. Hallett, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Roving Reporter: What Are Your Health Concerns? | 12/17/1999 | See Source »

...gamine, androgynous face behind Stereolab's characteristically sultry French vocals. (She's possibly the only person in music today who can make a complaint about faulty sound systems sexy: "Does anyone else hear that rumble?") Her look-but-don't-touch attitude makes her akin to the too-hip aunt of Bjork and Winona Ryder, a coy mistress of equally playful music...

Author: By Ankur N. Ghosh, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Playing Against Stereo's Type | 12/17/1999 | See Source »

...have you enraptured too: look for a special interview with Jane Campion, director of The Piano and Holy Smoke, in January....Have you ever tried explaining instant replay to somebody who has never heard of it before? My cousin and I tried it the other day when our Indian aunt exclaimed during a football game, What? What's going on? Didn't that just happen? We tried to explain it, but I realized how impossible it is. She ended the conversation once it started getting hostile: No, no. The same thing doesn't happen twice in India...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Soman's In The [K]now | 12/17/1999 | See Source »

...rock the boat. Whatever you do. I can't change that because that's who I am. When someone's cursing at me and I could curse back, I think, 'That's just not you Leea'....I talk to my parents everyday. I talk to my uncle, aunt and cousin a couple times a week. I'll say, 'Mom. I'm just calling to tell you that I love you.' Some people at Harvard are fiercely independent. I'm just not like that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Introducing: Fifteen's 15 | 12/16/1999 | See Source »

...Friday, Fidel Castro drew more than 2 million people into Cuba's streets to demand the return of the boy, who is currently staying with a great-aunt and great-uncle in Miami. The same day, Florida relatives filed a claim for political asylum on the boy's behalf, to prevent him from returning home to his natural father, with whom he remains close. While the U.S. has urged Elian's father to make a formal claim with immigration authorities, legal challenges by the boy's relatives - backed by Cuban exile organizations - are likely to delay his early return...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cubans 1, Exiles 1, Six-Year-Old Elian, 0 | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

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