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...systematically looted shops and homes in Kyrenia, a former Greek Cypriot enclave and the most important town Cypriot Turks have occupied since troubles began on the island. Residents of Kyrenia fled to refugee centers in tourist hotels that were protected by U.N. soldiers. Said Andreas Karioulou, 52, a noted diver whose discoveries off the island include a 2,200-year-old Greek galley: "It is hard to see your property go up in ashes. But I was born here, and I have no intention of leaving. The Turks should not keep us under guard forever...
Peachum, a greedy and self-righteous rascal, and his alcholic wife (Margo Martindale) want better for their son-in-law than an infamous criminal. With little virtue of their own of which to boast, they bribe one of Mac's whores, Jenny Diver (Tiina Cartmell), into betraying him to the police. Scotland Yard is led by Mac's old army buddy, the powerful Tiger-Brown (Patrick Clean), whose own daughter Lucy (Cynthia Dickason) is also married secretly to Mac. Mac is arrested twice. The women fight for his allegiance. He is saved at the very end by a royal pardon...
...mother of his characters' villainy and cynicism. "The Army Song," for example, Mac and Tiger Brown's recollection of army days, turns the fraternal joyfulness of army reminiscences into a horrible realization of what the military represents. In two show-stopping soliloquies, Lucy Brown's "Barbara Song" and Jenny Diver's "Solomon Song," the two women show that succumbing to sentimental attachment means ruin in the brutal milieu in which they live...
...circulating through fractures in the ridge's rock formations may carry off some of these minerals and concentrate them elsewhere. By learning more about such elusive processes, scientists may some day be able to predict the location of minerals in more accessible regions of the ocean. Says Geologist-Diver Robert Ballard of Woods Hole: "The earth is alive. If we can understand how it works, if we can understand its psyche, we can then go about looking for its resources in a more efficient and sensible manner...
People are scared of cracking their heads wide open on the bottom (if you recall last year's Yale meet, Eli diver Roger Oliphant had a face-to-face meeting with the deep end), and that doesn't bode well for Harvard diving...