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...Show: Stephen Scott's Son... There are a couple of major productions going up this weekend. One of them is rumored to be a spectacular bust (which makes it worth seeing, no?), while the other-Stephen Scott's Son-should be a resounding triumph. Directed by Andrew Boch and written by hotshot playwright Michael Ragozzino '01, Scott's Son examines the differences between fame and greatness in a fanciful story of father and son. It's building buzz and will be a hot ticket when it opens in the Loeb Ex this Thursday night...
...years, the highlands absorbed the newcomers and they lived in relative peace. What may have helped trigger the recent animosity is the sudden bust that has followed the coffee boom, hurting almost everyone in the area. In the past year, world coffee prices have plummeted. Farmers who in 1999 could get $1.40 per kilo now earn only 40 cents. That doesn't cover production costs. Y Dien, born into the Ede tribe 40 years ago, lives in Ea Brieng, a dusty Dak Lak village. In the hope of finding a better future, he followed government orders to abandon communal living...
...this may not be the best moment for cyberspace. Napster is stumbling. NASDAQ is a bust. Whole sectors of the virtual economy are wrapping up their stories at Chapter 11. But who cares if investors lose faith in the digital world? The artists are sticking with it--at least the ones who lately have been making some galleries look like Circuit City, full of dot-matrix screens and wall-mounted monitors. Remember when videotape was the hot new medium? Compared with CD-ROM art and screen-saver art, with website artworks or virtual-reality goggles, videotape is starting to look...
...feel vindicated that the make-believe companies are crashing down." JOHN ROGERS JR., chairman of U.S. firm Ariel Mutual Funds, on the plight of Internet companies in the ongoing tech bust...
...been some high-profile closures, including the much-maligned fashion site Boo.com last May. That may be just the tip of the iceberg. By 2004, predicts Internet research firm Jupiter MMXI, more than 80% of Europe's business-to-business websites will have disappeared - merged, collapsed or simply gone bust. The near future isn't looking good either. "In Europe," says Philippe Hayat, manager of French incubator Kangaroo Village, "the first trimester of 2001 is going to be a cemetery...