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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...season for me to be worrying about what to get my little sister for Christmas, which is always a tricky business, because it has to be good. This year I've settled on some CDs I think she'll like. It's not the most original or unusual idea, but I'm actually very pleased with it, because Christmas, like all gift-giving occasions, is an opportunity for indoctrination. My sister is a young and impressionable 15, and I can't quite resist the temptation to make her into a little version of me--a project toward which...

Author: By Jody H. Peltason, | Title: Creating a Musical Taste | 12/20/1999 | See Source »

...older sister Melissa, a 6'5 junior center, leads the team in scoring and rebounding, averaging 12 points per game and 9.6 rebounds per game...

Author: By William P. Bohlen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: W. Basketball Looks For Fourth Straight | 12/17/1999 | See Source »

Making RAZA more accessible to freshman, through big brother/big sister programs was also a predominant theme...

Author: By Rohit Goel, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: RAZA Elects New Leaders | 12/16/1999 | See Source »

...milk for dessert). Her weight, of course, is hardly the only thing that has made her a star of the gossip pages. There were the slew of canceled concert appearances, the reports of erratic behavior, a faltering singing voice and a feud and chilled relations with her half sister Lorna Luft, author of a warts-and-all family memoir. No one ever said being the daughter of Judy Garland (dead of an overdose at age 47) was easy. But for a walking, talking soap opera, you'd have to look pretty hard to top Liza...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Maybe This Time | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

...quite the way it sounds in Luft's tell-all book, Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir (which, among other things, recounts Lorna's role in getting Liza into rehab). The two aren't talking now, though Liza doesn't describe it as a feud: "We're sisters, and we're going through something." She won't even bad-mouth the book, which she claims she hasn't read. "It's her point of view. I think it was probably cathartic for her to write it." Catharsis or not, Liza refused to join her sister in a couple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Maybe This Time | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

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