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...best possible price on products ranging from high-end LCD televisions to cans of tuna. As pricing data becomes more prevalent on the net, Internet users get ever closer to perfect information. That information in turn reduces almost any consumer good to a commodity. Why wouldn't everyone search for the absolute lowest price on every purchase...
...About My Mother follows Manuela, a middle-aged nurse who is compelled by the sudden death of her teenage son to travel to Barcelona in search of his drug-addled, HIV-positive transvestite father, who now goes by the name Lola. He is elusive, but she finds Agrado, a transvestite prostitute he robbed and abandoned, and Sister Rosa, a local nun he impregnated and infected. Manuela begins mothering them both, and also befriends Huma, an aging lesbian stage diva performing in Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire. The quartet form a bizarre postmodern family that shares pain and solace alike...
...apparent wheel-spinning. The company, no one doubts, must be sold. The 5,000-pound vulture in the room is named Air France-KLM, which sat out this past year's round of bidding. Alitalia's initial cuts (modest as they are) to both personnel and fleet, its search for some hanging-on cash, and above all its shifting its hub southward all make it a more attractive regional partner for Air France following its merger with Dutch carrier KLM. It may turn out that playing hard to get will pay off for the French, as the Italians grow more...
...government-controlled company tallied some three billion euros in net losses between 1999-2006, becoming a running joke among industry insiders and a mounting burden on Italian taxpayers. Last fall, Prime Minister Romano Prodi declared the situation at Alitalia "out of control," and vowed to personally lead the search for a solution. But when the Italian Treasury eventually put most of its 49.9% share of Alitalia on the market, the terms of the sale came with so many strings attached that, one by one, all potential buyers (from U.S. private equity fund Texas Pacific to Russian carrier Aeroflot to upstart...
...this infusion of women into the medical system to mature to the point that they have all of the accomplishments and background one would want for these top jobs.” Dr. Victor J. Dzau, who is chancellor for health affairs at Duke and was part of the search team, called Andrews a “nurturing figure” who will serve as an example for the medical students at Duke, particularly women and minorities. “Many female students, physicians and scientists are concerned of the challenges in career work-personal life balance...