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...dancing and whistling first-year was crowned the second Miss Harvard at the mock pageant??marked by a cellophane evening dress, a dance featuring mouthwash and fake accents galore—held in Leverett House Dining Hall Friday night...
...real mystery about this tragedy is why the pageant??s organizers were so committed to imposing the contest on Nigeria in the first place. Of all the times and places to hold the Miss World competition, Nigeria during Ramadan must be the worst combination. With a recent history of religious violence, Nigeria is an odd country to host the Miss World pageant. Its large and influential Islamic population, much of which lives under Islamic Law, considers the public exhibition of women to be an obscenity. But despite the offensive and insulting effects of the pageant, the Miss World...
...home country. On some level it was a noble decision to pretend that Nigeria was capable of hosting a beauty pageant just like any other stable country. But there was also a very selfish aspect to this choice. The organizers were so determined to improve the pageant??s reputation that they were willing to endanger the safety of the contestants and the Nigerian people...
...this game of make-believe that created the whole Miss World mess. The pageant??s organizers and the Nigerian government were both involved in a great fantasy that the pageant would work fine in Nigeria, ignoring a lot of facts and a lot of common sense. Nigeria’s large Muslim population would not act its part in this charade. It was not ready to accept an international beauty pageant, which one Islamic leader poetically described as a “parade of nudity.” When the riots began last week, the fantasy finally collapsed...
...pageant??s account of the battle reads like a description of a contemporary epic film, starring an underdog who rises above all odds. In what the guide calls “most wonderful fight know to history,” it describes how “untrained farmers” fought against “drilled troops,” and “drove the soldiers like frightened sheep.” This classic literary theme of the underdog has entertainment value and resonates with town pride, but it is a highly colored reading of the events...