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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wonderful year of randomized roommates) with them. The stories were legendary. There was the time one of our roommates let someone use our fridge to keep some baking ingredients. One of the jars-dubiously labeled 'intestinal flora'-caught our attention. Only later did my sister, a medical school student, tell me that if we had any sort of direct contact with the stuff, we would have had diarrhea for a week...

Author: By Sujit Raman, | Title: Calling Home Ain't So Bad | 11/17/1998 | See Source »

...year wore on, I could sense that my parents missed having me around the house, and we began talking to each other more often. While I used to call only to tell them about the funny things happening around campus, I began to share with them even the more mundane aspects of college life. Soon, the phone call from home became a daily ritual...

Author: By Sujit Raman, | Title: Calling Home Ain't So Bad | 11/17/1998 | See Source »

...proud to say I have replaced the umbilical cord with a fiber-optic one. It's nice to be able to talk to one's parents as friends, as confidantes. And every once in a while, I tell a story that makes my mom laugh so hard she begins to cry. I don't know if it's because she's so happy or if it's because she misses me. It's those moments that make me glad I went off to college so I could discover that my parents are people, too--and wish that I were back...

Author: By Sujit Raman, | Title: Calling Home Ain't So Bad | 11/17/1998 | See Source »

...What's really neat about this map is that, when people tell us to go back to our own country, we can point to the map and tell them that we actually come from northern Utah," Campos said...

Author: By Susie Y. Huang, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Journalists Discuss Ethnic Identity with RAZA | 11/17/1998 | See Source »

Monica Lewinsky is ready to tell all, says the New York Post. The paper reports that the "Sexgate siren" has signed a seven-figure deal with St. Martin's Press to publish a book in February. Her collaborator: Andrew Morton, best-selling royal biographer, whose Princess Diana book was a sensation on both sides of the Atlantic (and is now being turned into a movie by "The Lion in Winter" producer Martin Poll). In addition, says the Post, it looks as though Monica will be sitting down to talk with ABC's Barbara Walters sometime soon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Monica, Morton Ink Deal | 11/16/1998 | See Source »

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