Word: kareem
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...debate over Rana Irfan's frequent trips back home to India took years to resolve. She enjoyed them, but her husband Kareem found them unnecessary. Eventually the issue was resolved in Kareem's favor, as are many between them. Their marriage, says Rana, 37, a spirited and sophisticated native of Bombay, is based on "consultation," but in the end, "someone has to take charge. That is my husband." It says as much in the Koran...
...course, the back story is different. Rana's marriage to Kareem was arranged during a visit to the U.S. when she was 21. Engagement followed their second meeting; "he looked like a good chap," she says, laughing. She frames her American experience as a shedding of limiting Indian assumptions for a liberating Islamic understanding. Her upbringing taught women "to take care of our husbands." But as she studied the Koran with several (female) teachers here, "I learned more and more about my rights as a woman. I don't do the housework now because I have...
...BILL RUSSELL, Celtics legend If Jordan's comeback falls as flat as Magic Johnson's talk show, Russell may edge back into serious contention for the unofficial greatest NBA player ever. The field is muddled, but Jordan, who isn't the greatest scorer (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar), rebounder (Wilt Chamberlain), floor leader (Magic Johnson) or winner (Russell) is considered the best ever because he blended those skills better than anyone...
...aerobics for it; Angelina Jolie buffed up for Tomb Raider with it. The newly clean Charlie Sheen used yoga and dieting to shed 14 kg. Add at least two Sex in the City vamps, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kristin Davis. All three Dixie Chicks. Sports stars from basketball legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to Yankee pitcher Orlando (El Duque) Hernandez are devotees. And speaking of athletes, who showed up recently at Turlington's lower Manhattan haunt, the Jivamukti Yoga Center? Monica Lewinsky...
...early teens are difficult years for American boys. The first flickers of puberty bring with them confused longings. New social skills are suddenly required; the conversation in my junior high school has shifted from Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the center for the Lakers, to Teresa, this totally hot girl in Algebra I. A few of the guys evolve flawlessly. One week they're collecting baseball cards, and the next they're driving Mustangs and dating Teresas. The rest of us retreat into a sort of refined hyper-geekdom. As kids we may have played with toy soldiers or plastic tanks...