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...price war began last month when brokers began aggressively cutting commissions on stock trades to grab the attention - and business - of many self-directed investors and independent financial advisers who had fled large brokerage firms during the economic and stock market meltdowns...
...Muslim family. The popular movies he watched in the 1960s, such as Mughal-E-Azam and Guide, were pure escape - gorgeous fantasies of epic love and tragedy. By the time he was a teenager in the 1970s, the socially conscious new wave of the 1960s - so-called parallel cinema - began to enter the mainstream, bringing Indians' everyday experiences to the big screen. Khan was transfixed. He had been an indifferent student at college in Jaipur, but now pursued a spot in the National School of Drama in New Delhi with single-minded devotion. "My father died the same year...
...much as $14.99, up from $9.99. Amazon did not agree with that idea. The website removed "buy" buttons from e-texts published by Macmillan, angering authors and customers. Some prospective buyers, however, sided with Amazon, vowing that they would not pay more for Macmillan e-books. The freeze began to thaw Jan. 31, when Amazon started selling certain Macmillan titles at the higher price. As of Feb. 3, though, some books were still not available as talks continued...
...California's ban on same-sex marriage, from being filmed or broadcast on YouTube. But actor John Ainsworth and filmmaker John Ireland found a loophole. The duo, legally married to their respective husbands, found a mock courtroom at the University of Southern California, hired a group of actors and began re-enacting the proceedings on the basis of courtroom transcripts and firsthand accounts from journalists present at the trial. The episodes began airing online...
...years ago, Dani Shapiro began suffering from what she calls an "is-this-all-there-is despondency," a spiritual malaise she chronicles in her new memoir, Devotion (HarperCollins; 245 pages). She had her farmhouse with a quarter-mile-long driveway, a sweetheart of a husband, an adorable son and a thriving career as a novelist, but something was missing...