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Hugo Luczyc-Wyhowski, the film's production designer, says, "We just bought a clock." His set decorator found it at a London flea market. Getting a wall clock that was "kind of American looking" satisfied his desire to give context to the film's Nigerian-born lead character, who had lived in New York City. "It was a way of saying he brought it with him from America," says the production designer...
...best positioned of the banks that are competing with Western Union. Citi bought Banamex, Mexico's second largest bank, in 2001 and has a strong banking presence in India, where the company is the largest credit-card issuer. "But at this point it's still the elephant and the flea," says David Robertson, publisher of the Nilson Report. By year's end, Western Union will have set up shop in 15,000 India Post offices...
...city full of single-lane roads, crowded cafés and neighborhood bread shops. Some streets are devoted almost entirely to shoe stores, others to books or electronics or trendy club wear. On Sundays, in a tradition dating back 500 years, the entire Rastro neighborhood becomes a vast outdoor flea market, where shoppers can get anything from a rug to a kitchen set to an automobile wheel. So does Madrid really need an American-style megamall - one that comes with a 250-m ski run? A developer called Mills Corp., based in Arlington, Virginia, is betting yes, with...
...with the gilded Baghdad palaces from which Saddam Hussein ruled Iraq, the bombed-out remains of an air-defense base a few miles outside the southern city of Nasiriyah don't look much like a headquarters for the country's next government. The only intact building is a dusty, flea-infested warehouse that had no windows, no running water, no bathrooms. But that is where Ahmed Chalabi, the controversial leader of the once exiled Iraqi National Congress (I.N.C.), set up shop last week after the Pentagon airlifted him and some 600 fighters of his newly named Free Iraqi Forces into...
...even bigger flea market. And every day but Monday, there's a big, bustling, cornucopia-style covered market that puts sterile grocery chain stores to shame. Toulouse has been a market town since its early days as the Gallo-Roman Tolosa. In the Middle Ages the city was governed by councilors called capitouls, chosen from among the leading merchants. In the 15th century the merchant class grew rich from the international trade in pastel, a blue dye made from the locally grown woad plant, and the newly wealthy began to build the brick mansions that still line almost every central...