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...more than 50% since 2005. But it’s still just chump change, compared to the $475 billion we’ll blow on Christmas. “Get back to me when Adams House has a ‘Sweet and Nasty’ Christmas pageant...

Author: By Daniel J. Mandel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Emergence of the Dark, Red Undead | 10/31/2007 | See Source »

...gone mapless is probably because I have access to amazingly detailed digital maps anytime online. So, all of this has got me thinking (no surprise) about our online geographic focus. What are we looking for? What can't we find? The answers may surprise you - and potentially help future pageant contestants should this question ever arise again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are We Lost? Or Not Lost Enough? | 9/27/2007 | See Source »

...think I’ll call it a scholarship program instead of Junior Miss,” Nora said, “because that would sound more like a beauty pageant...

Author: By Nathan C. Strauss, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Incoming Freshman Already a Junior Miss | 7/13/2007 | See Source »

...never competed in any kind of pageant-related competition before, described the whole process as relatively low-stress, especially compared to the violin and piano contests she’s used...

Author: By Nathan C. Strauss, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Incoming Freshman Already a Junior Miss | 7/13/2007 | See Source »

...Latin American and southeast Asian beauties. When a Japanese sports daily mistakenly published Miss Thailand's picture as Mori - and blundered in its apology by claiming the photo was of Miss Korea - local tabloids, instead of faulting the newspaper, criticized Ligron's crowning achievement for having a homogeneous beauty pageant look. Indeed, newspaper writers - reflecting the tastes of Japanese men - wondered if 5'9" Mori (who speaks English) embodies anything Japanese at all. Ligron, who has been approached to replicate her success in other countries, thinks it may be just as well. "Japanese men want infantile anorexic kawaii [cute] women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan's Beauty Queen Factory | 6/12/2007 | See Source »

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