“Have you ever seen the Consul? Does he speak, does he breathe? Have you spoken to him?”   Magda Sorel  in The Consul , by Menotti       In the harrowing aria "To This We’ve Come" , Magda, the protagonist of Menotti’s The Consul , protests the dehumanizing effects of bureaucracy. And we can certainly understand Magda. Who has not dealt with the red tape of the medical establishment, with insurance bureaucracy, or with this or the other agency or service? Yesterday I went into

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