Word: hooper
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...zany music video, is the least of Rock Steady’s seductive tracks. Now that Stefani has gained respectability in the techno and hip-hop communities for appearing on tracks for Moby and Eve, No Doubt can attract producers such as William Orbit for a techno sound, Nellee Hooper for hip-hop, and Ric Ocasek for a trip back to the eighties...
...government had no compunction about spying on citizens? religious practices. Despite the long-standing association of the American bill of rights with absolute religious freedom, it wasn?t until the early 1970s that the federal government stopped its surveillance of places of worship. Before that, FBI director J. Edgar Hooper spent much of his term spying on the comings and goings of rabble-rousers as varied as the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. and assorted Ku Klux Klan members...
...Happily, such treatments have been largely absent from American Muslims? religious lives, says Ibrahim Hooper, communications director for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a Washington-based Islamic advocacy group...
...While Hooper agrees with Ashcroft?s premise, he hopes the focus remains trained on terrorism rather than on one particular religion. "Obviously if there is some indication of wrongdoing, that?s one thing," he says. "But if there?s no evidence of a problem, then it?s intrusion - something no American should want to see, because you never know who could be next. People who don?t share our religion or background may figure it?s all well and good to say go after the Muslim groups or the Arab groups," Hooper says ruefully, "but what about the next round...
...It’s a really diverse and interesting set of people,“ Hooper said...