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MISS IOWA 2004--CAROLYN NICHOLAS Haugland--had sung at many political events, from Governor Chet Culver's inauguration to visits by President George W. Bush. But former Tennessee Senator Fred Thompson was the first candidate to really inspire her. After singing for his Sept. 6 campaign launch in Des Moines, the 27-year-old real estate lawyer gave her résumé to Bob Haus, Thompson's Iowa state director. Within a week she was hired as the campaign's Iowa communications director, even though she had had only one political internship. "I will always take someone with passion as well...
Politics is a family tradition--Haugland's great-grandfather was a Lieutenant Governor--and one that she intends to honor, with plans to work for a state representative this spring. And while she has no formal media experience, Haugland earned some stripes on her grandfather's farm in Clear Lake, Iowa, where the family gives summer tours of the field where Buddy Holly's plane crashed in February...
...role as Miss Iowa that, Haugland says, helped prepare her for dealing with the media. "Before I was crowned, I was actually nervous and uncomfortable with being in front of people," she says. "But after you're forced to do that for an entire year ... you learn to become comfortable with yourself...
...singing, and the cast, conducted by the company's music director, James Levine, was a rich international assemblage that included the splendid Bulgarian soprano Anna Tomowa-Sintow as the gentle maiden Elsa, the fiery Hungarian soprano Eva Marton as the scheming Ortrud and the hearty Danish bass Aage Haugland as King Henry the Fowler. Most notable of all, as Lohengrin, the mysterious knight of the Holy Grail, it featured Placido Domingo on one of his rare forays into the German repertoire. What looked at first like a mismatch turned out to be a gamble that paid off handsomely...
...chip. "The more leaks the better. Through the gaps in our floor the water ran out but never in." Only once was a crewman in serious danger, when Watzinger fell overboard and was unable to catch up with the raft, which was at the mercy of the current. Haugland jumped in with a life line and rescued him while the other four watched with horror as some huge sea monster tailed the swimming...