Word: pageants
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Sinnott was crowned the next "Miss Boston" on Mar. 31, placing her one step away from competing in the national "Miss America" contest next year. Although the Marine-to-be is new to the pageant circuit, she said in an interview this week that competing in pageants "keeps things balanced...
When she asked her mother Sharon if she should enter the pageant, Sinnott said that her mother told her she would first "have to learn how to walk like a girl...
...Pageant winners "really have a voice. When you have a crown, you have credibility. You can promote an issue and people will really listen to you," Sinnott said. She will spend the next year speaking in public about this issue and working with legislators...
HELP WANTED: Pastor's wife. Must sing, play music, lead youth groups, raise seraphic children, entertain church notables, minister to other wives, have ability to recite Bible backward and choreograph Christmas pageant. Must keep pastor sated, peaceful and out of trouble. Difficult colleagues, demanding customers, erratic hours...
...their own interests. The first example of freely chosen disaster that she cites was Rehoboam's loss of the northern kingdom of Judea and its conquest by the Assyrians nearly 3,000 years ago. The story of the Middle East for years has been, in many ways, an endless pageant of the self-defeating. ''We were in a different time zone 40 years ago,'' says Sari Nusseibeh, a Palestinian professor of philosophy at Bir Zeit University in the West Bank. As the Zionist immigration came to critical mass, especially after World War II and the Holocaust, when Israel became...