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...Memory of Water, Shelagh Stevenson's new-ish play about three sisters coping with their mother's death after a prolonged bout with Alzheimer's Disease, is jam-packed with struggling marriages, pent-up familial resentment, abortive relationships and shadows of the deceased. Quite a comedy. At least the British thought so; nine months ago, after enjoying a popular run at London's Vaudeville Theatre, Memory won the 2000 Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Comedy. What prompted this quirky and very British comedy to take a hope across the pond to fair Harvard's somewhat-less-fair Loeb Experimental...
...European pressure behind his cause. A judicious level of violence had wrung Israeli concessions before: the Jerusalem tunnel uprising in 1996 had forced Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to follow through on a delayed territorial withdrawal. And it could serve as a safety vent for all that frustration long pent inside Palestinians...
...Years of pent-up frustration under Milosevic's blighting misrule had finally erupted in a tumultuous showdown, as each new success taught Serbs to see they had the power to change their future. The revolution ran at cyberspeed from the disputed election two weeks ago, ending victoriously in the dizzying events of one day. Just like that, the Serbs took back their country and belatedly joined the democratic tide that swept away the rest of Eastern Europe's communist tyrants a decade ago. The West gloried in the exit of the man who fueled savage European conflicts for a decade...
...pressure he felt came from a pent-up demand for digital music in the late '90s that was going largely unfilled. Before Napster, downloading music was so cumbersome it was mostly relegated to college students with access to fast pipes and techno geeks sufficiently driven to search the Net for the latest Phish bootlegs. The digital-music standard MP3, short for ISO-MPEG Audio Layer-3, was developed by German engineering firm Fraunhofer IIS back in 1987 as a way of compressing CD-quality sound files. The technology made it possible to take songs from...
...Cohen, who heads the investment-policy committee of Goldman Sachs, the giant investment firm. The series of six interest-rate increases forced by the Federal Reserve between June 1999 and last May are not the only reason, she said. Consumers are also showing some signs of having temporarily satisfied pent-up demands. "If you bought a new car in 1999 or early 2000, you're not buying another new car; and if you upgraded your home by moving into another one over the past year or so, you aren't going to do that again anytime soon...