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...looking for other directors for The Hobbit, Jackson posted on the fan site The OneRing.Net, "[We were told] that New Line would no longer be requiring our services on The Hobbit. This was a courtesy call to let us know that the studio was now actively looking to hire another filmmaker." In December Harry Sloan, chairman and CEO of MGM, invited Jackson and Walsh over for dinner and heard Jackson's vision for The Hobbit. Yet Shaye was still bitter, telling the Sci Fi Wire website in January, "I don't care about Peter Jackson anymore. He thinks that...
...Meanwhile, parents planning to hire horses and elephants for their children's birthday parties - another growing trend - find themselves having to cough up similar prices. "We really wanted an elephant for our son's birthday," says Gul Mukhey, a business development professional based in Delhi. "But the owner said the price on that particular day would be 21,000 rupees ($525) as we were in a long queue!" But mare and elephant owners counter criticism of their prices by pointing out that it costs a lot to maintain their animals, and since they mostly get work during the wedding season...
...Stevens, who is taking intermediate German and introductory Arabic, said that languages like Arabic that do not use the Latin alphabet pose an issue for the software she uses to do her reading. And because no one at Harvard could translate the Arabic script into Braille, ATL had to hire an outside company to translate the book...
Outsourcing brings to mind big factories and call centers. But entrepreneurs around the globe now offer services--from tutoring to sculpting a bust of your grandpa--to regular folks for a fraction of the cost in the West. Thought the world was flat before? Well, now you can hire someone in India to carry your child...
Infosys is one of the Big Three IT companies (along with Wipro and Tata Consultancy Services), but success is changing it. The company has doubled its workforce in the past 18 months, to about 80,000. This year alone, it will hire more than 30,000 additional employees...