lostinnyc

Their fears were well-founded only if you use the hateful and twisted "logic" that the USSR used at the time.

My American university provided lots of financial aid to international students. Need-blind! Many of these students came from countries with very un-American political systems. And many of them simply returned to their home countries after college.

And yet these students did not have to go through the Kafka-esque (and just plain wrong) system that this author describes. They were treated like everyone else.

It's also the site of the worst NYC disaster prior to 9/11: http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/north-brother-island