  Results from the data obtained in the first physics run of the Relativistic
Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) have shown suprisingly large elliptic flow and
suprisingly small HBT radii. Attempts to explain both results in a consistant
picture have so far been unsuccessful. The present work shows that a simple
thermal-like initial state model coupled to a hadronic rescattering calculation
can explain reasonably well both elliptic flow and HBT results from RHIC. The
calculation suggests a very early hadronization time of about 1 fm/c after the
initial collision of the nuclei.
