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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think the best way to win Sandra's love is to prove how amazingly clean you are now that Dunster has hot water. Whenever you have a chance and Sandra is within ear shot, be sure to mention showers, soap, shampoo, deoderant, Tide...whatever. Make sure you're always well groomed and smell like a Spring breeze. You could also get your friends to spread rumors about how obsessively clean you are, and how upset you had been when you couldn't bathe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dirty Dining | 2/16/1995 | See Source »

This is your life and you should do what you want to do with it. I guess you could audit a bunch of Bio classes and take her to them when she arrives, pretending like you have a clue. However, that's pretty dishonest, not to mention a waste of time, Tell her. If your mother loves you, she will understand. if she doesn't, explain to her all the useful things you can do with Folk and Myth (like academia or running Columbia Pictures like Folk and Myth grad Lisa Henson) and how you just weren...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dirty Dining | 2/16/1995 | See Source »

...random hookups and hopeless crushes. Early last semester, however, I had what I can retrospectively term the good fortune to encounter a few individuals who made me realize that there are worse fates than being single, even on Valentine's Day. We're talking profoundly worse. No need to mention names, especially with Massachusetts libel laws in their current condition...

Author: By Emily Carrier, | Title: Love Bites: | 2/16/1995 | See Source »

...give thanks, curse fate, or ask what possible excuse HSA could have to charge $50 for a dozen long-stemmed roses. Even those who choose to observe the holiday by flinging themselves at their textbooks and praying for the horror to end can band together in solidarity, not to mention finish their reading for the first time this semester...

Author: By Emily Carrier, | Title: Love Bites: | 2/16/1995 | See Source »

Palestinians have little patience with Israeli hesitancy. Many were irate that the meeting made no mention of the growing Israeli settlements--one was authorized in East Jerusalem last week--that they consider violate the spirit of the agreement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALL TOGETHER NOW | 2/13/1995 | See Source »

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