Word: crowning
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...head of state (many former British colonies still recognize her as such). The proposal was rejected, but only because people were wary of the alternative offered: a president chosen not by the people but by the legislators. Polls consistently show Australians don't have much attachment to the British Crown...
Even though the Harvard women's volleyball team wasn't expected to end up with the Ivy crown this weekend, the Crimson almost succeeded in robbing the eventual champion...
This can't be just any dress either. Luisana Cruz, a 17-year-old senior, is a finalist for homecoming queen at her mostly Hispanic school in the Lincoln Heights section of Los Angeles. She hopes to wear both a football helmet and a crown before the day is done on Friday. "I want it bad," says Cruz, who is also student-body president and is listed on the football program at 5 ft. 6 in., 151 lbs. "But that's with the pads," she says defensively of her weight. She doesn't have a date for the dance...
...Thursday another fullback, Eulices Sierra, asked Cruz to the dance. That night she found a sassy little purple number with a sheer top. And then at halftime of the game on Friday, the princess in shoulder pads traded her helmet for a crown and climbed into a white Mazda Miata convertible for the parade of queen candidates. She looked stunning, if a little sweaty...
...would be nice to report that Lincoln upset Franklin with a last-minute touchdown by Cruz and that at the dance afterward, she was crowned homecoming queen. But Hollywood is located several miles west of here. Lincoln went down, 34-0, and another girl got the crown...