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...action of play shifts to the past and we learn how Jane and Deedee were required to be good Arab girls and how they also wanted to have fun like American girls. After watching the ways in which Jane's brother Samir (Santiago Tapia '97) and Deedee's boyfriend Nader (Andrew Pitcher '97) treat women, the audience is left with the impression that Arab-American men, with few exceptions, are evil: they only want sex from women and yet demand that all Arab women be virgins at marriage. The younger Tarik is seemingly virtuous, but his occasional sexist, over-bearing...
...play climaxes when Deedee discovers she is pregnant with Nader's child. He has rejected her, and she is determined to have the child. Jane tries to convince Deedee to save the reputation of her family and have an abortion, but she flatly refuses. However, in the last five, extremely confusing and bizarre minutes of the play, it is revealed that Deedee died after a home abortion. Suddenly, back in the present, Jane begins to act like this is all a revelation to her (when it's not), and she seems to have some sort of an epiphany about being...
...Nader challenged the audience, mostly students at the Law School and the Kennedy School, to think "civic...
...Nader also called for more organized student involvement in public-interest issues...
...Nader applauded two student groups as models of student involvement in public service: Harvard's Appleseed Center for Electoral Reform, which sponsored his speech, and "Campaign...