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...Winners DAVID BECKHAM Soccer's Spice Boy gets the O.K. from coach to play for England with a mohawk. Coach rejects Beck's bid to play bottomless DARYL HANNAH Actress wins libel suit against London tabloid. For a moment, she imagines the victory will reinvigorate her career?then reality sets in NANNI MORETTI Cannes awards director Italy's first Palme d'Or in 30 years. As if having fine-looking women, swell clothes and great cuisine wasn't enough
...Raymond T. Rourke, a Native American, sued the New York State corrections department after he was fired from his job as a guard for refusing to cut his hair. Keeping it long, he argued, is a tenet of his Mohawk Longhouse religion. He was reinstated...
That's one big airline. United, already the world's largest air carrier, moved to plug its one geographical hole late Tuesday by forking over a total of $14 billion for Northeast-centric US Airways, formerly US Air, formerly a combination of Allegheny Air, Piedmont Air, Pacific Southwest and Mohawk Airlines... The new mega-carrier will boast revenues of $26.5 billion from multiple hubs on both coasts and 6,500 daily flights, nearly twice as many as its nearest competitor, American. Like any merger, it's an economy of scale - more northeastern flights feeding seamlessly into those lucrative long-distance...
...Mohawk reservation appeals to smugglers because its status as a tribal reserve makes it a no-go area for law enforcement officials. Even the military has declared it a "red zone" and has refused to fly over it since a medical helicopter was shot down on a nearby reservation years ago. At the edge of the 16,000-acre reservation, a sign boldly warns the FBI, state police and IRS to keep out. "It is a jurisdictional and geographic nightmare," says Ashlaw, who only enters the reservation escorted by the tribal police. This year the border patrol has made...
...police and federal authorities, the smuggling took off several years ago when Canada lowered its cigarette tax. Until then much of the reservation's cash came from buying cheap cigarettes in the States and selling them illegally in Canada. "You could make 600% on a case of cigarettes," says Mohawk Charlie Little Tree. "When that ended, people became the easiest commodity." Little Tree is now facing charges for smuggling aliens; his son is already serving time for the same offense...