The Talking Dog: Can you please tell us where were you on 11 Sept. 2001?
Pardiss Kebriaei: I was in my third year at law school at the University of Pennsylvania. I was coming out of classes. There were televisions set up in common areas, with students gathered around. We saw one of the planes go into the tower on t.v.; there was some confusion about what we were seeing. Other than that, I remember leaving school with my friend, and there was already speculation that this was a terrorist attack. Walking out of the school, we were in a daze. We walked into an ice cream shop to sit down and process this. I remember an unfortunate exchange with someone in the store in the nature of, “Now we should deport all foreigners”, or something of that nature. ...