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Still, Holworthy did have a few good points. The bathrooms are "semiprivate"--meaning that you don't have to trek down the hall in a towel and shower behind a see-through map-of-the-world curtain while various individuals wander in and out. One of my friends was privileged to have this experience, and has informed me that contrary to popular belief, Asia is not big enough to cover your body from shoulders to knees...
...rising tide of assaults has created a rippling pool of fear. Some teachers now send little girls to the bathroom in pairs. Young women say they are afraid to take a shower or run the hair dryer; the noise could mask an assailant's approach. At college parties, many coeds clutch their cocktail glasses, worried that knockout drops could be slipped into their drinks...
Denial has long been my preferred route for dealing with my shattered illusions. When I first unpacked Blankie and put him on my pillow, my roommates thought they were living with a diseased human being. "What is it?" they asked. "A shower mat? A huge used hankerchief?" I told them it was my pride...
...donated the pieces to charity and erected a Moroccan palace with five domes, an art gallery, ten baths and two reflecting pools. "We would have liked larger reflecting pools, like the Taj Mahal," explains general contractor David Conrad, whose desk is a marble slab that was once Reagan's shower, "but the street...
...tried reasoning with them. I've tried bribes. I've even threatened to take the glop off the shower drain and throw it in their beds. One night I was so frustrated that I thought back to what my father would do when my siblings and I made too much noise late at night...