What's especially frustrating is that no one here -- not in my family, not anyone that I've talked to -- doubts for one second that if the guy had been, say, a blue eyed blond from Orange County, none of this would have happened.

It's terrifying. I just keep thinking, "What if that was me? Or my nephew Omid? Or my niece Neda? Or my other nephew Navid? What if in ten years, that's Niki or Chayan?" What if, you know? I go to the labs all the time and forget my ID card. So does every student I know.