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...mansion to her. She has a part-time job in a convenience store, the salary from which barely keeps her two kids in popcorn and orange drink, which is all they have for food. And that says nothing about her environment. She lives close to a casinoless Mohawk Indian reservation, near the Canadian border in upstate New York, where the snow is perpetual and the temperature always sub-zero...
...turns to this line of work when Lila (Misty Upham), an outcast from the Indian reservation, steals her car, which is ideal for smuggling - capacious trunk and a dashboard release button, handy for quickly off-loading human cargo should trouble arise. The two women form an uneasy partnership and, of course, bad things do start to haunt them. There are the cops and the border patrol to worry about. Also the dangerous scumbags who run the smuggling ring. And the possibility that the ice on the river might crack under the car's weight...
...country seemed to sense the threat, as India's major cities immediately set up checkpoints and metal detectors. At least 17 more unexploded bombs were defused on July 29 in Surat, a global diamond hub halfway between Ahmedabad and Mumbai. The possibility that the terrorists may themselves have been Indian suggests that the sectarian anger boiling beneath the nation's modern veneer has taken on a new and bloodier tenor...
...Indian economy is slowing this year, but even if it grows at only 7% or 8%, it will be doing far better than the U.S. and most of Europe. The Indian multinationals that have grown out of the 10-year boom look as strong as ever, with outsourcing giants like Infosys and Tata Consulting Services growing very robustly. Their success has created a huge middle class for which 12% inflation is more of a nuisance than a worry. The long-term future of the Indian middle class is secure. The factors that have driven its success - a sure grasp...
...million or so Indians living in acute poverty are being crushed by inflation. If they thought washing the floors, driving the cars and cleaning the windows of the middle class would open the doors to a better life, they know now that they were wrong. With prices rising, their savings are being eaten away. Higher food and fuel prices are being driven by big changes in the global economy that look set to continue. Even the most cheerful optimist in the past decade has seen the huge divide between the haves and have-nots, but the hope has persisted that...