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...alternative,” which do absolutely nothing to challenge the beauty pageant regime. Had it more courage, Impact would make the absurdity of beauty pageants the center of the show. To allow men to compete, and to encourage them to do so in drag, is only a start...
Impact ought to confront objections head-on by emphasizing how ridiculous beauty pageants are and by over-doing—and, indeed, celebrating—the drag. After all, women in a standard beauty pageant are themselves in a kind of drag. Beneath makeup, stuffing and hairspray, how much of the person on stage really remains...
...first MiniDisc player designed for people who like music with their workouts. It features G-Protection jostle proofing, can record CDs via a PC without copying anything to the hard drive and uses $2 MiniDiscs, which hold up to 110 hours of music. You can't simply drag song files from your computer and drop them onto the player, but you can record at high-capacity 32X, which is pretty buff...
...brink of bankruptcy, the government cleaned up the creaky financial system and reined in the big chaebol conglomerates, blamed for killing the economy with reckless borrowing. While other Asian countries, most notably Japan, have been slow to excise the failing companies and unproductive assets that are a drag on economic growth, Korea has been more ruthless. For example, bad debts at Korean banks were reduced by more than 55% last year thanks to aggressive disposal of distressed assets. Meanwhile, Japanese banks are on the verge of collapse as loans to unhealthy, noncompetitive companies continue to sour...
...front-row view for the parade that kicks off at 8 p.m. The alternative is an agonizing four hours on cramped tippy toes craning to catch a glimpse over the heads of bystanders packed six deep. If you think that is agony though, consider the poor drag queens who walk the 3-km-long route in 15-cm stilettos. A few floats and costumes may shock?and occasionally the crowd gasps loudly?but more often they simply laugh, applaud or roar in approval. The largest cheers are reserved for gay members of the police force, who march in uniform. Twenty...