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Each contestant lifts her leg gracefully to show her famed decorated shoes: Iowa’s pig and corn pair, Arizona’s Diamondback snake wrapped around her calves. Heads move in quarter turns, and smiles remain frozen wide for the entire four mile stretch of the Boardwalk. Between the queens are South Jersey Vietnam veterans, wary police officers circling on bikes, the trucks of local businesses, and something preternaturally perky called “The Miss America Bike Team...

Author: By Irin Carmon, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: There She Is | 9/25/2003 | See Source »

...fire but failed to quell the shooting. One soldier was hit in the back; the bullet went through his ceramic vest, ripping his shirt but failing to pierce the skin. The unit's bloodhound wasn't so lucky: it had to be evacuated after taking a bullet in the leg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside The War On Hamas | 9/22/2003 | See Source »

...says, "I guess we were just expecting rocks to be coming at us." Sims is righthanded; the gun was in his left hand. "I thought I was shooting at the ground," he says. "I remember pop-pop and then thinking, Oh no, I might have hit [Virgil] in the leg." He and Farley went to a friend's house and asked him to hide the gun under his mattress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Legacy Of Virgil Ware | 9/22/2003 | See Source »

...Draconian order. The film's protagonist is one of their henchmen, who has been told to kill a young woman in custody for an unnamed crime. The woman is confined to a hutlike cage, where she breathes heavily; she is a wolf with its leg in a trap, in agony but too proud to howl in pain. The film describes the edgy relationship of the young militant and his prisoner, each incarcerated by a tyrannical belief system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: More Than Chick Flicks | 9/22/2003 | See Source »

...have a leg up on everybody who got here after us,” Altchek says...

Author: By David B. Rochelson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Soccer Recruit Gets a Kick Out of First Week | 9/15/2003 | See Source »

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