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...course of his drama, Beaumarchais (well sung by baritone Hakan Hagegard) decides to enter the action -- don't ask how -- to enable his beloved to escape prison and flee to Philadelphia. The scheme depends on selling her diamond necklace, which changes hands roughly as often as the Rhine gold. In the end Marie decides to accept her grisly historical fate, though she does confess that she has fallen in love with Beaumarchais...
...city council endorsed it by a 6-to-1 vote last May. Dubuque hasn't been the same since. "The plan is perceived by blue-collar workers as a personal threat to their jobs," says Bob Wahlert, president of F D L Foods and a supporter of the scheme. Twelve cross burnings since July suggest that darker emotions are also involved...
Rescue attempts are emotionally satisfying but rarely successful. Carter's catastrophe in the Iranian desert cast a shadow over later U.S. plans. A scheme for rescuing the 39 passengers and crew hijacked aboard TWA Flight 847 in 1985 was bungled or never got off the ground...
Wheeling and dealing sometimes works, but carries a moral and political cost. Until Ollie North's secret arms-for-hostages scheme blew up in political scandal, it did secure the release of three Americans: the Rev. Benjamin Weir, Father Lawrence Jenco and David Jacobsen. But most U.S. politicians and the majority of the population were not prepared to countenance such a cynical trade...
...white folks have a choice. We can keep pretending that welfare is a black program and a scheme for transferring our earnings to the pockets of shiftless, dark-skinned people. Or we can clear our throats, blush prettily and admit that we are hurting too -- for cash assistance when we're down and out, for health insurance, for college aid and all the rest...