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LaDuke, a resident of Adams House while an undergraduate, is a resident of the White Earth Indian Reservation in northwest Minnesota. She is known for her activism on American Indians' economic and environmental issues, working to have land returned to her native Objibwa tribe. She is also a published author and a farmer...
...your mega-merger, and raise you... Acquisitiveness in the airline industry was bound to take off in the jetwash of the proposed United-US Airways merger, but a report that honchos at No. 2 American Airlines and No. 4 Northwest have been in contact about a deal of their own - which would create a new top dog mega-carrier with nearly 30 percent market share - smells suspiciously like a bluff. "Obviously, there's a fever in the industry to consolidate for fear of getting left behind by United," says TIME business writer John Greenwald. "But it seems like the government...
...American and Northwest combo, says Greenwald, would have far greater route overlap (a red flag for competition-minded regulators) than the neatly complementary maps of United and US Airways. And United is divesting what little there is, at Washington's Reagan Airport, creating DC Air and handing it to BET mogul Robert Johnson in a little backyard lobbying of the Capitol crowd. But even that merger will get a very close look from the Justice Department, Congress, even the Europeans - not to mention the unions involved - and some analysts are giving it no better than a 50-50 shot...
...Antony Tudor with new works by such younger choreographers as Nacho Duato and Dwight Rhoden. And his aggressive outreach efforts include Dance D.C., an ambitious pilot program of inner-city public school dance classes, and low-priced "Beer and Ballet" previews held at the company's studios in northwest Washington...
...public. There's no Candlestick Park anymore, just 3Com Park, and now there's a PacBell Park to match. The venerable Boston Garden was replaced not too long ago by the Fleet Center: a city erased, its role played by a bank. A little town in the Pacific Northwest just renamed itself after a dotcom company in return for a generous donation. I won't mention the name here, since I figure advertising should be paid for. That's when advertising has gone too far: when it's become something we are, rather than something...