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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fifth grade talent show with Rachel, traveling from Camp Scatico to Cannes with Dina, hitting seedy New York dance clubs with Judd, gorging food with Madeline or sharing a room the size of a closet with Heather, my friendships have emerged out of shared experiences. While I'm not best friends with these people just because we had a jazzy talent show act or we shared a slice of pizza or two, each experience was a stepping off point to a deeper, more emotional bond. Even though it may be as superficial as a volleyball game or a mad shopping...

Author: By Jennifer Y. Hyman, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Endpaper: Unreading Period | 12/2/1999 | See Source »

...even if they have hurt her in the past. To Sherri, every day is a clean slate, a fresh opportunity to laugh, share and learn from one another. And Sherri has never given up. Even when teased by the neighborhood girls, her long ago-playmates, when rejected by her best friend Amy because she was not up to Amy's middle school standards of cool, or when cast aside by the piercing looks of waiters and store clerks--Sherri has never cracked her positive attitude. She never loses hope that others will soon see her as a genuine and funny...

Author: By Jennifer Y. Hyman, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Endpaper: Unreading Period | 12/2/1999 | See Source »

...their bathroom? It's kind of weird because there's a mirror facing you when you use the toliet, which you don't really need to see. It smells really good in there. The Hasty Pudding bathroom is perhaps the best smelling bathroom I've used in some time...

Author: By Jennifer Y. Hyman, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: In The Bathroom With B.J.: An Interview With The Delta Stow-away | 12/2/1999 | See Source »

...Mather House students and staff are Billy's extended family. "The best thing about working here is that all the students know me," he says. On a recent Friday evening, as he puffs on his evening's cigar, a tutor introduced Billy to his girlfriend who was visiting from Europe for the weekend. Two separate groups of students proposed that Billy join them on their trip to see The Game the next morning. Billy politely declines and lightheartedly advises them to not drink too much beer. Working as a security guard is more about fielding random queries than cracking down...

Author: By Timothy L. Warren, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Smokin' With Billy: The Passions and (Extended) Family of a Harvard Guard | 12/2/1999 | See Source »

...candidate seemed to find few detractors in the crowd, which cheered loudly as Richard Friedman, owner of the Charles Hotel and a friend of the Clintons, introduced her by saying that she "will be the best senator New York has ever...

Author: By David C. Newman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: First Lady Attends Book Signing, Avoids Talk of Senate Race | 12/2/1999 | See Source »

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