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...City of God and Oliver Twist and a dozen Indian musical melodramas - which are more sanitized by far but display the same obsession for family ties and first love, and are just as unashamed in pushing feelings of joy and despair to the apogee of passion. Jamal's search for his long-lost lifetime love Latika is the stuff of Indian-pop films from the Raj Kapoor era to today. True to its roots, Slumdog, adapted from the novel Q&A by Vikas Swarup, ends with a chastely rapturous kiss and an all-out dance number, composed by Bollywood deity...
...customer service. In March 2007, it announced plans to lay off its highest-paid hourly employees, including salespeople, and replace them with cheaper workers. That same year, then CEO Philip Schoonover received some $7 million in compensation. It may come as no surprise, then, that a quick Web search on "Circuit City complaints" brings up hundreds of thousands of entries...
Retailers are also discovering that by making their Web experience hassle-free and user-friendly, they can achieve better sales. That's why 42.9% of merchants have improved their search function, 42.6% have added or enhanced product videos and 32.7% have included customer reviews to help shoppers make buying decisions, according to Shop.org's 2008 eHoliday Study, conducted by Shopzilla. Further, 8 in 10 retailers are offering some kind of free shipping option this season, often with a stipulation like a minimum purchase amount. Consumers are increasingly savvy about playing these options for maximum value. "They will bundle their purchases...
Other sites, like the month-old Wishabi, involve members acting as personal shoppers. People post wish lists while deal hunters (anyone can serve as one) search the Net to find the best bargains for those items. The results are then rated by the site's Deal Rank software. If the person ends up buying an item, the deal hunter who found the price gets a small percentage of the commission. "People are leveraging other people to determine if deals are good," says Wehuns Tan, CEO of Wishabi. Adds Resource Interactive's Rollins: "The retailer that accepts that social media...
...hike was started four years ago by a group of Hnahnu Indians on their ancestral lands. Some of the poorest people in Mexico, the Hnahnu first began crossing into the U.S. in the late 1980s, and within a decade most of their young had left their ramshackle villages in search of dollars. While the fruits of the exodus transformed the Hnahnu's home landscape, allowing migrants to build walled mansions and paved roads, it also divided the community, separating families by thousands of miles and an ever more fortified border. The Hnahnu of the Parque Alberto community then began...