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...This program is a threat to Islam. This is entertainment for animals." SHAHNAZ RABI'I, 34-year-old Bahraini teacher, criticizing an Arab version of Big Brother, which had six men and six women cohabiting in a house?with a coed lounge, a prayer room and segregated bedrooms?for a week before it was taken...
Minutes since birth that twin sisters Adriana Scott and Tamara Rabi, who were born in Mexico but adopted and raised by different American families, were separated before a mutual friend helped to reintroduce them last week...
Desirable Daughters is the tale of Tara Chatterjee, an Indian woman living in San Francisco in the late 1990s. She has divorced her billionaire tech-mogul husband and lives with her teenage son, Rabi, and her Hungarian “mistri,” Andy. Mukherjee carefully weaves among various incidents in Tara’s past and the unfolding drama of her present. Each foray into the past peels away another sari, unveiling heretofore unknown layers of meaning in Tara’s life...
...craft characters that maintain a fullness of personality and an independence of action that is only rarely encountered. Like any immigrants, Mukherjee’s characters find themselves in a new world faced with new problems. However, the issues with which Tara, her husband Bish, and their son Rabi must deal confront many typical Americans, and not just non-natives. Mukherjee develops multiple plots and subplots, which serve to infuse both the protagonists and the supporting actors with a brilliant dynamism...
...seemed. In the former category, for example, is the 1936 discovery of a new particle, the muon, an elementary particle similar to the electron but more massive. Existing theories had predicted no such thing, and its appearance greatly complicated high-energy physics. "Who ordered that?" grumbled theorist I.I. Rabi at the time. But the muon and its kin led eventually to a new understanding of the subatomic world...