Word: friendly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sunday night. It's a BMW 5-series, all-leather interior, CD-carriage in the trunk. A pleasant surprise. Next we meet our driver. It's Daniel, a 5'3" Asian-American boy with wire-rim glasses and a mouth full of orthodontic gear. He's a friend of a friend. As we watch him empty his back seat of miscellaneous papers, books and WWF action figures, we wonder--the first of many such doubts--what the hell we are doing. "Daniel," Aaron asks, "How many car accidents have you been...
...looking guys in blue jeans and fleeces. One decides that he is restless. Unfortunately, there isn't much to do in midtown Manhattan at four in the morning. Fortunately, the one option that does exist is exotic dancing. Across the street an enticing neon sign announces "The Playpen." Our friend decides to check out the toddlers...
...give me your MTV-logoed North Face parka, and I'll cough up a nickel for your disadvantaged friend." No deal. The line again shuffles forward. We bid Judd Hirsch adieu and greet the cast next door...
...Sugi anything in the card store aisle with all the name merchandise. (There are about a zillion variations of the name Alissa, though. Alisa, Alysa, Alyssa, etc.) But there's a restaurant near Fort Lee, N.J. with my name. I've never actually been there myself, but a friend handed me an advertising card. "Fine Japanese Cuisine...Sugi features Six Tatami Rooms accommodating up to 20 people." What? There are at least 100 Sugi's on America Online. Sugi.net is a Web site. I hope to buy sugi.org upon graduation. Or maybe ganeshananthan.com. I'm torn. I'm pretty sure...
...rape is so pervasive on this campus that I guarantee you know at least one survivor. And you don't know you know because she's afraid to tell her story. Other survivors who have come out to the Harvard administration have had their experiences invalidated and belittled. Your friend isn't going to tell anyone, and maybe she will never get to vocalize what she has to live every day: the horror, the terror, of her rape...