Their guilty pleas this week finally lay to rest any doubt that the trio acted both unethically and unlawfully in recommending that NatWest sold its investment in Swap Sub, an Enron-related venture in the Cayman Islands, for $1m.
The trio acted selfishly and foolishly in the name of an idealist isolationism that isn't sustainable or even possible in the modern world– especially not in New Zealand, which depends on intellectual and material trade of all kinds with nations near and far.
But the trio acted synergistically to upregulate a regulatory subunit of cAMP-dependent protein kinase, a ubiquitous protein involved in neurologic pathways and a key regulator of neuronal growth in the clam embryo model.
They also trade off duetting with each woman, all of whom get the spotlight when the trio opens Act Two with the big band number "Bugle Call Rag" by Benny Goodman.
His noble line and fabled airy leaps were visible again in the male trio of Act I and during his solo in the balcony scene.
The point comes clear during a rehearsal of the trio in Act II, when Sarastro has Tamino part from Pamina before sending him through the trials of fire and water.
