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...argue that depression is still stigmatized in a way that physical illnesses aren't. Have you experienced that? Yes. People judged me when I was in such pain. They would lecture about how if I just ate organically or meditated this way or went to yoga more often, I'd be fine. When I tried medication, people on the holistic side told me I was copping out, taking happy pills. And when I focused on yoga, people on the other side warned me against doing anything in Eastern medicine...
...Still, buoyed by their increasing revenues, studios have not given up. Disney, which has a stake in Mumbai-based film and television producer UTV, is right now making two live-action films. Fox Star CEO Singh says he hopes to start making up to five Indian films a year. He is betting on the studio's first Indian co-production My Name Is Khan, to be released globally next month. It has all the right ingredients: Bollywood screen royalty, a hit director and the requisite hype. And if it clicks, it could be the script for the ultimate Hollywood-Bollywood...
...system by keeping the immigrants on its margins. Services are few and far between, mainly provided by religious organizations. Non-Italian police are rarely seen, and only one nonwhite serves in Parliament. Many immigrants simply do not report crimes against them. Disappearances are frequent - the Polish government is still looking for more than 100 Polish migrants who vanished from the tomato farms of Puglia in 2006, some of whom are believed to have been killed...
...Still, as the Rosarno riots illustrate, the immigrants are far from accepted by most Italians. Shootings like the ones that sparked the unrest are not uncommon. "We used to learn how to use our guns down there by shooting at dogs," says Saviano, who was brought up in the Naples area. "Now the 14-year-olds shoot at immigrants. It can look like kids fooling around, but it's not; it's target practice." The town's African population responded by burning cars and smashing shop windows, prompting retaliatory attacks by white residents. It was the fourth outbreak of violence...
...have become a target for conservatives who resent giving up control to the private sector - especially as Jetstar has increased its market share at the expense of the state-run Vietnamese Airlines. Carl Thayer, a politics professor at the University of New South Wales, says the Vietnamese government is still "uncomfortable" with private competition and that its treatment of Jetstar Pacific is part of a "backlash against aspects of the globalizing economy...