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STAR POWER Celebrities on tap for Inaugural events include Hilary Duff, left, Ruben Studdard, Gary Sinise, Buzz Aldrin and Dale Earnhardt Jr. A more eclectic array, including Macy Gray, Dennis Hopper, Lyle Lovett and Andrew W.K., will be at the various unofficial parties
...Habib was on a bus headed out of the Pakistani town of Quetta when police swooped and arrested him. What, they wanted to know, was an Australian citizen doing in this restricted border zone - a Taliban stronghold - without a permit? "Wrong place, wrong time," says Habib's lawyer Stephen Hopper: the Egyptian-born father of four, who planned to move his family to Pakistan, had simply been looking for business opportunities and a good Islamic school for his sons. But U.S. security agents, who soon took custody of Habib, didn't buy his story. They and their Australian counterparts...
...convicted of involvement in the 1993 plot to bomb the World Trade Center. Habib joined protests at Nosair's 1991 trial for murdering a rabbi, tried to raise money for El-Gabrowny's defense, and raised $500 to buy medicine for Sheikh Omar. But his motives were purely charitable, Hopper says: "He would always stand up for the underdog." The increasingly devout Habib also joined the same hardline Muslim prayer group as Willy Brigitte, Murat Ofkeli and Bilal Khazal, who were all later charged with terrorism offenses in Australia or overseas. But he didn't share their views, Hopper says...
...Hopper is now hoping the legal system that couldn't save his client from three years in limbo will deliver him some compensation via possible lawsuits. The government says that since Habib was lawfully detained, he is not owed an apology or compensation. "Because of his former associations and activities," Ruddock says, Habib will remain "a person of interest" to the security services. And the dilemma of how to fight terrorism without abusing terror suspects' rights will remain a topic of interest to the public for a long time to come...
...walking and robotting with absolutely no visible signs of trying too hard to be cool, the Hip-Hopper is totally in his element at The Sweaty. As I observe The Hip-Hopper, I find his most admirable trait to be the apparent lack of creepiness. He’s there for the music and the dance, not to perv on the opposite sex! So it doesn’t matter when you don’t know The Hip-Hopper and he grinds up on you. It just don’t. Within a matter of minutes...