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...Winners EMINEM Vulgar rap artist's album debuts at No. 1 on the U.S. pop charts despite marketing snafu. Word-of-mouth works if the language is foul enough LING ZHUO First-ever Miss China named second runner-up in Miss Universe pageant, then attacks Miss Taiwan for claiming to be an "independent woman" KIM DAE JUNG, JUNICHIRO KOIZUMI Beleaguered leaders of Korea and Japan hold hands during World Cup ceremonies. Crowd loves it. Candlelight dinner is scheduled Losers LANCE BASS Russians say they're not sure 'N Syncer is fit to be next space tourist. Music world disagrees...
Critics of al-Jazeera, including American officials, accuse it of bias. They say the channel's gratuitous repetition of the death pageant crudely stokes Arab anger and ignores the losses suffered by the other side. Al-Jazeera covers the Israeli victims of Palestinian attacks with live coverage and news bulletins, but not always with personalizing details. However, those aren't details that viewers necessarily want; they feel al-Jazeera needn't go out of its way to humanize Israeli suffering, when, in their view, Palestinians receive no such treatment on American or Israeli TV and are instead demonized as terrorists...
...exclusive photos from the swimsuit competition. Another online news site, entitled “Campus Nonsense: Exposing Left-Wing Lunacy,” featured the story as well. In the same segment where they criticize a Stanford protest against Condoleezza Rice’s selection as commencement speaker, the pageant rears its tiara-topped head. “I haven’t heard anyone mention the choice of a drag-queen as Miss Harvard,” the author writes. “Personally, I take the libertarian approach to these events, but suspect that some...
...amidst all the spectacle and publicity, the crown has reminded me of my innumerable character flaws. A good friend at MIT sent me a series of e-mails requesting photos from the pageant and ended with the following message: “I am probably annoying the shit out of you by now, but I don’t care because you are Miss Harvard. You have to pretend to be nice even though you’re a total bitch.” And it’s true. I’ve always had difficulty being completely honest...
...with my breasts was literally a thousand miles away. Still, I carried with me the silly notion that I am Miss Harvard. I know that the title has gone to my head and that I’ve exaggerated its importance. I know there is no Miss Ivy League pageant to prepare for, no events for me to speak at and no official duties to perform. But the crown has reminded me that it’s important how you carry yourself. I’ve been reminded that it’s nice to be important, but it?...