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...Although the Mississippi Gulf Coast is still referred to as the "Redneck Riviera," and Confederate souvenirs are still omnipresent in the curio shops along the beach, the most notable features of the area are the glitzy high-rise casino hotels, the new condominium towers and shopping centers that have made it the premier vacation and retirement destination in the Deep South. This upbeat reality was overlooked last week as a new act in this ongoing battle for the soul of Mississippi played out just down the road from Eight Flags. At a small auditorium in Pascagoula, a besieged Senator Lott...
...Lott, on the other hand, is rapidly becoming a relic in his own state. As NAFTA takes effect, and the Wal-Marts and Starbucks start moving in, the Trent Lotts are being shoved to the back of the bus, sitting with plastic casino buckets and handing out Confederate trinkets to the remaining white-power holdouts who reject progress in the name of heritage...
...VISTAS Out by the Estrella Mountains, guests can can catch glimpses of wild horses. Trail rides on tamer beasts are available A GAMBLE Pima and Maricopa tribal leaders hope the joint venture with Sheraton will bring money into their community without relying on slot machines?although a casino is just a short trip away INDULGENCE The 16,260-sq.-meter spa is called Aji, a name derived from a place the Pima considered a sanctuary during battle...
...murky are the Authority's investments--which range from a cell-phone company in North Africa to a casino in Jericho--that the accountants can only guess that they are worth anywhere from $1 billion to $10 billion. Besides making sense of the books, the Standard & Poor's team is testing them for evidence to support allegations by Palestinian merchants that the Authority controls de facto monopolies in the local flour, cement and tobacco trades. The accountants are looking closely at how the Authority awards contracts and trying to determine whether corruption in licensing, which they say has been rife...
...Rockwell Group's 90 employees (Rockwell calls them "collaborators") are charged with finding unusual materials to build with. And in the casino he had the means to use every crayon in the box. He wove strips of birch bark together for some of the walls, encased turkey feathers and dried corn husks in glass for others. The lobby is delineated by trees made of cedar, old copper joints and beads, and is punctuated by a 55-ft. indoor waterfall. Gamblers try their luck in the glow of Wombi Rock, a mountain made of onyx and alabaster fused onto glass, which...