Word: pageants
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...Tibet: First-Ever Beauty Pageant Health: Dengue Fever Returns
...Tibet: First-Ever Beauty Pageant Health: Dengue Fever Returns
...crew is setting up in acorner, but the contestants, weary from the media attention, have retreated to their rooms. It's only an hour before the start of the swimsuit round, and it's raining. "Oh, my poor girls," laments Lobsang Wangyal,producer of the Shambala Miss Tibetbeauty pageant. "They are going to freeze." Wangyal stops to bark a question at one ofhis assistants: "How are we doing on the judges?" Moments later a mobile phone rings. "We got the princess!" shouts hisassistant, who has taken a few days off work at the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy...
...child who recognizes his previous incarnation's possessions. In the northern Indian city of Dharamsala, seat of the Dali Lama's government-in-exile, crowning a Miss Tibet may prove almost as hard. For the past year, Wangyal, a freelance journalist, has been trying to put together a pageant that will feature Tibetan beauty?and also publicize the cause of Tibetan independence. The reception from community leaders, however, has been unenthusiastic. Since 1959, when the Dalai Lama fled Chinese-occupied Tibet, Tibetans in exile have fought to preserve their traditions. Breaches of custom often are met with skepticism and fear...
...last week's beauty pageant wasdecidedly nontraditional. None of the four contestants came from Dharamsala: three hail from refugee settlements in India and the fourth lives in the U.S. Originally there were 10, but several dropped out at the last minute?some, suspects Wangyal, due to social pressure. It didn't help that the Tibetan Prime Minister publicly denounced the pageant as foreign and inappropriate. "Our religion is from a foreign country," fumes Wangyal. "Buddha was Indian. Our food is Chinese, our clothes come from Mongolia. We have always borrowed from other cultures. A beauty pageant is just one more...