Word: money changer
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...mainly provides gentle, melodious hooks laid over the upbeat electronic tunes that have infiltrated hip-hop full force as of late.As a result, “Deeper than Rap” has a softer overall sound than Ross’ first two albums. Better suited for the six-CD changer of a white Lexus on a sunny Saturday than the dusty tape deck of a black Impala on a dreary Monday, “Deeper than Rap” gives listeners the feeling that Ross is getting used to his new lifestyle. The “I made it?...
...young people on the make. Mostly, Hessler focuses on four people: Emily, who gives up her well-paid factory job to train as a teacher of disabled children; Willy, a gifted young English instructor who blows the whistle on his superiors over leaked exam questions; Polat, a shady money changer from China's Uighur minority who eventually finagles his way into the U.S.; and Chen Mengjia, an oracle-bones scholar whose mysterious death during the Cultural Revolution bedevils Hessler. The scholar's tale is the only one without a satisfying ending, but Hessler finds inspiration in the dogged optimism...
...country, because the ferry route lops more than 500 km off the trip from the capital of Dakar. The shortcut was abruptly closed in mid-August after Gambia doubled ferry charges. "The Gambians just woke up one day and increased the price of crossing," says Kebba Fall, a money changer in the Senegalese border town of Keur Ayib. "It's too expensive. We cannot take it." When Senegalese truckers complained, border police blocked Gambian-registered vehicles from entering Senegal. Gambian authorities retaliated by barring Senegalese vehicles from Gambia. "The Senegalese think they can rule us," says tax collector Marong...
Karzai has some legitimate campaign challenges. A senior Afghan official says Iran, Russia and Pakistan are throwing money at different candidates. A Kabul black-market money changer claimed that the dollar's recent rise against the afghani, from 52 to 45, was due to the sudden influx of dollars. "In my village," says Fida Mohammed, who is from the Shomali Plain near Kabul, "our elders are seeing who offers us most before telling us how we should vote...
...that time, European countries tended to overvalue their currency wildly in the official rate of exchange, so everyone exchanged money on a fluctuating black market. For a while, I worked in the TIME bureau in Paris, in a job only marginally more ennobling than the men's-room-attendant position Tom Ripley held down at the start of the movie, and the high points of everyone's week was the Friday-morning visit of a distinguished-looking money changer known as Monsieur Moustache. Much of the rest of the week was spent discussing how Monsieur Moustache's rate varied from...