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...Hossein Rahimi does not wear a beard, not even the ten o'clock shadow de riguer for even the casually pious. He prays five times a day and bemoans what he calls "social corruption," but gels his hair, listens to Eminem, and doesn't look away when pretty girls pass. And that's not exactly typical of an activist of the basij, the clerical regime's volunteer paramilitary force tasked with enforcing its strictures on personal and social behavior...
...suave Hossein Rahimi the new face of the basij? Not really. As the son of an adviser to the Defense Minister, he is drawn to hard-line politics out of family loyalty. But like many children of the revolutionary elite, class privilege sets his lifestyle apart from the basiji rank and file. He watches Fox News and discovers old friends on www.orkut.com. His favorite movie is A Beautiful Mind, and he lives in a well-heeled neighborhood of north Tehran rather than in the working-class quarter of Naziabad where his basij is based. "Not only do I like Eminem...
...currently compiling a book of ideas with friend and fellow grad student Rolf Howarschmidt that includes suits that businessmen can ride bikes in and, perhaps most interestingly, “a coat for people with ‘public autoerotic proclivities.’” Rahimi clarifies, “Basically, it lets its wearer masturbate in public without anyone else knowing.” Despite his ambitious future projects, Ali remains famous, at least for now, thanks to his cell phone. He was recently surprised to find that a current google search for “biggest...
...Rahimi. A fourth-year grad student at MIT, Rahimi devised a way to conquer the bane of headsets and bring the flair of pimping, another modern pastime, to the bland world of cell phones. As he says on his website (www.ai.mit.edu/~rahimi), “I am the coolest stud at MIT University—I hacked an old school telephone handset onto my cell-phone. Now I walk around Cambridge, MA, looking like a phat pimp...
...lunchtime rendezvous with Rahimi, however, revealed a mild-mannered man more intent on discussing his research on sensor networks than his superfly cell phone. Was it a mistake? Could this really be the same guy who called a bunch of British guys manufacturing similar cell phones “a bunch of limey pansies”? In truth, Rahimi explains, the “phat pimp” persona on his website is a ruse. “I thought it would be funny if I pretended to be some sort of ‘technology pimp...