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[2]. “Up nine steps and through the back door, Obama’s room was the first on the left past the carpeted stairwell. Obama’s roommates were Paul Carpenter, a bushy-blond Southern California boy from Diamond Bar, explosively funny, ironic, with a gap-toothed smile and an up-for-anything attitude, who dressed in beach style and occasionally took his friends surfing (bodysurfing, in Barry’s case) near his grandmother’s house at Newport Beach; and Imad Husain, an intellectual Pakistani with a droll sense of humor who grew up in Karachi (though his parents now lived in Dubai), finished his secondary education at the Bedford School outside London, spoke with a pronounced British accent, and was partial to peacoats and rugby shirts. Sunny California was Carpenter’s comfortable milieu, but it seemed heavenly to Husain, an escape from the drafty dormitory at the British boarding school where he shivered many nights even under five blankets.” (Maraniss 2012:769)
[3]. "Imad, though he came from a more moneyed family, shared with Obama an international sensibility, and played an important role in introducing his roommate to other Pakistanis at Oxy who would become lifelong friends.” (Maraniss 2012:771)
[4]. “Caroline Boss and Susan Keselenko knew Obama through their Pakistani friend Hasan Chandoo, who loved to talk politics. They also were in a class with Obama during the second trimester of his freshman year. It was Political Science 94, an American foreign policy course team-taught by Larry T. Caldwell and Alan Egan. The lead teacher was Caldwell, a redheaded, freckle-faced expert on the Soviet Union and nuclear arms negotiations who occasionally served as a consultant for the CIA and treated his students almost as though they were junior advisors on the National Security Council. He split them into teams, Group Y and Group A, to write and present papers on some of the most pressing issues of the day. Obama was part of Group Y, as were Boss and Keselenko and several other high-powered students, including Tim Yeaney, an activist who chaired Oxy’s World Hunger Task Force. ” (Maraniss 2012:807)
[5]. “When he returned to Oxy, the Annex was out of his life. He had talked to Kofi Manu, the Ghanaian, about finding an apartment with him for their sophomore year, but instead moved into a place with his Pakistani friend Hasan Chandoo, now a senior. It was four miles from campus at the corner of Glenarm and Raymond Avenue in Pasadena, not far from the terminus of the Arroyo Seco Parkway. Vinai Thummalapally, from India, was leaving the apartment for another place, though he would come over often and cook meals there. In most respects this was a different world from the bustling backdoor lair at Haines Hall. No more Barf Couch. Chandoo, whose family was in the international shipping business, wore fine clothes and drove a yellow Fiat 128S that he bought with his own money. ”
[6]. “During the Christmas break that year, Sohale Siddiqi, a friend of Hasan’s and Wahid’s who lived in New York, came out to visit. There was a room available at the apartment in Pasadena; Obama had left on a road trip and ended up in San Francisco. On the night of December 31, Hasan and Sohale and some buddies drove up to San Francisco for a New Year’s Eve party, and it was there that Siddiqi encountered Chandoo’s roommate for the first time. “A lanky, broad-smiling Barry wearing a tattered straw hat endeared himself immediately by greeting me in Urdu slang with ‘Kiayaa haal heh, seth?’” (How are you, boss?) Siddiqi asked Obama “how he got any sleep with a snarling wood carved mask hanging over his bed. He laughed in response.” The straw hat was the same one he had worn for the photo shoot with Lisa Jack. The wood carving came from Indonesia. The next morning, Obama joined Chandoo and Siddiqi and friends for the long drive back to Los Angeles. Siddiqi stayed for another ten days. “It was nonstop parties, social gatherings, with home-cooked meals by Vinai.” There was also an event at Oxy that Chandoo helped with, a visit from the social activist and comedian Dick Gregory, who then espoused “simple living and frugal eating,” concepts that Obama in particular seemed to take to heart.” ( (Maraniss 2012:838-839)