"Perhaps now with less ice, particularly with a longer summer season, the age-old dream of a fast passage to Asia can be achieved, " Delgado says.

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The act ends with another orchestral passage, the Dream Pantomime, depicting 14 angels who come down from heaven to protect Hansel and Gretel while they sleep.

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In 2006, Ms. Powell Jobs backed an effort led by College Track students to collect signatures backing passage of the Dream Act, a federal bill to put an estimated two million young people on a path to citizenship.

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Despite having a Democratic-controlled Congress at the time, the White House was unable to win passage in 2010 for the DREAM Act, which would have granted legal status to young people brought to the country illegally by their family.

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It had been years since Selma and Montgomery, since Dr. King had told America of his dream -- all of it culminating in the passage of the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act.

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