Word: cheaping
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...political change. Resigned to the rule of autocratic mullahs, they have turned inward, settling for the opportunity to make a little more money and have a little more fun. Gone are dreams of Che Guevara and a quick, painless revolution, replaced by the allure of pyramid schemes and cheap trips to India. Although it's too late to buy the love of Iran's youth, the mullahs seem happy to settle for torpor. "You have a situation," says my friend Karim Sadjadpour, an analyst in Tehran for the International Crisis Group, "where the majority of Iranians have neither the luxury...
...college. Yet these days he's doing something he never thought he would do again: renting. With a new baby, Choe, 39, and his wife badly wanted to buy a larger house. But, says Choe, "the market has gone too high too fast. Compared to owning, rent is cheap...
Take a deep breath, and plow down the river. The Fiji Travel Pack inflatable kayak ($120; sevylor.com is nearly 11-ft. long, holds 400 lbs. and comes equipped with a handy storage bag. A cheap alternative to lugging a kayak on your car roof, this one can even fit under the front seat, with your spare change...
...that theglobe.com would be the next General Electric. Rather, he says, it is based on fundamentals that include tight housing supply--especially in places where it is tough or expensive to build, like New York City and San Francisco--such population factors as immigration, foreign buyers (snapping up properties cheap because of a weak dollar) and baby boomers' demand for second homes. "It's the demographics, stupid," he says...
...pain feels real in A Long Way Down, although not at the price of Hornby's pleasantly bitter wit. But what makes the book work is Hornby's refusal to give an inch to sentimentality or cheap inspirational guff. "I didn't want a book where they loved each other," he says. "That seemed like a kind of bad, Hollywood way to go. They are frank with each other, but mostly so that they can abuse each other." Spoken like a true heavyweight. -By Lev Grossman