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...Harvard Pageant nomination process and the 2000 presidential election have at least three things in common: competition between hyper-inflated egos, general apathy from the majority of the population, and the apparent losers demanding a recount...
...Twirl Competition begins, Andrea Snow struts her way, in sequins and top hat, through some vigorous choreography set to Puttin ' on the Ritz, while an emcee, in her best beauty-pageant voice, announces, "Andrea is five years old, and she's looking forward--[pause]--to entering kindergarten." A little later, Carol, leader of the Mira Costa drill team, starts gnawing at the half-inch nails on each of her eight ringed fingers. "I'm so nervous my stomach hurts," she confides. "But if you become nervous," she tells her charges between hugs, "I'll shoot...
...says elections must be dull, worthy affairs? Three weeks before Brits go to the polls, the great pageant of British democracy was throwing off moments of offbeat hilarity that derailed the parties' ferocious message machines. The Conservatives have gained traction by pushing an annual limit on immigrants, which is why their Dorset South candidate Ed Matts released a photo of him and former Minister Ann Widdecombe holding posters reading controlled immigration, not chaos and inhumanity. Unfortunately, in the original, he was holding a photo of a family of Malawian refugees, and her poster said let them stay...
Back home the newspapers call her the Queen of Fire and Water because a fire broke out during one preliminary pageant and it rained heavily in San Juan on the night she was named Miss Puerto Rico. Deborah Carthy-Deu, 19, paid no attention to those omens. Like any self-respecting teen, she was impressed with the fact that the last of her facial marks from a bout with chicken pox cleared up two days before the deciding pageant in Puerto Rico. From there she was on a roll, and last week in Miami she became the 34th Miss Universe...
...title Ms. Wheelchair Wisconsin was awarded last week to the third-place contestant after the winner was forced to give back her crown and the first runner-up refused to take it. Why the pageant turmoil? Officials said Janeal Lee, 30, a scooter-dependent teacher with muscular dystrophy who can still walk about 50 feet a day, violated a rule against appearing in public out of her wheelchair. "Every year there are tasks I have to give up doing because of my disease," says Lee. "I guess when it progresses enough, I'd be able to enter [the contest] again...