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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Remember when the controversy over Miss America's swimsuit competition threatened to end that portion of the show forever? Those days are long gone. Now, little children can turn on their sets and watch a beauty pageant without the beauty or the pageantry--where the prize is an old, sleazy man rather than a tiara and sash, and the title Mrs. Multi-Millionaire is more desirable than Miss America. (A whip-smart friend pointed out that it would have been a mean little joke if the man's actual last name was Multi-Millionaire--a man who didn't have...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani, | Title: Soman's in the [K]NOW | 2/18/2000 | See Source »

...last week Trump split from the envy-inducing Slovenian model MELANIA KNAUSS because, according to associates, he felt the need to focus on his campaign. And in fact, a day later, he was back on the stump, pressing the flesh with 32 young ladies from the Miss U.S.A. pageant. Hey, beauty contestants are voters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jan. 24, 2000 | 1/24/2000 | See Source »

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