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...scheme worked this way: current law limits individual political contributions in federal races to $1,000. Fireman got around the rules by persuading employees to write checks for the individual maximum, then reimbursing them from a front company he established for that purpose in Hong Kong. Last spring when the Kansas City Star began investigating the scheme, Dole claimed to know nothing of it. "In this business, you don't know who's giving you money," he said...
...corrupting virtue with sensual sinfulness. Cecile Volanges (Sara Boyle '00) and Madame de Volanges (Anna Lewis '99), who are embroiled in their own mother-daughter struggle over whether Le Chevalier Danceny (Daniel Sussner '00) is suitable marriage material for Cecile, also fall victim to Valmont and Mertueil's scheme. Madame de Rosemonde (Vanessa Reisen '97), Valmont's aunt, possesses the deepest understanding of the play's web of deceit. In a downhearted acceptance of the production's cynicism, she says that "to hope to be made happy by love is a certain cause of grief...
...play's energy only slows down towards the end, when Valmont and Mertueil's scheme starts to wreak havoc in their own lives. Valmont is torn between La Presidente de Tourvel, whom he claims to have fallen in love with, and La Marquise de Mertueil, who holds considerable power over him. The sense of unspoken attachment between Leach and Brawley is perhaps too good, because this turn of events does not seem believable. There is a fatal swordfight between Valmont and Le Chevalier Danceny that continues for too long, stretching out the play's final scenes when they should...
...that many of my peers will make solid contributions to our struggling society once they return from the front lines. However, I do insist that we all need to experience a little shell shock before we start driving in car pools. I do not exempt myself from this little scheme and you may be wondering why I would wish to enter into harm's way. The answer is simple. Our generation is pathetic...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "[Letting states administer welfare] is a giant money-laundering scheme. It's about writing blank checks to Governors while imposing no standards or accountability...