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...winner of the Junior Miss Rhode Island competition as a senior in high school, Gray said she thought that when she came to Harvard her pageant career had ended. She said she had enjoyed the experience but, she added, “It wasn’t my thing...
...stress paid off this weekend, when Gray beat out 15 other contestants to take the 2003 Miss Rhode Island crown and earn a ticket to the biggest beauty pageant of all—September’s Miss America competition...
...carried Friday’s pageant on the strength of her violin concerto, a platform advocating music education in public schools, floral pattern evening gown and blue one-piece bathing suit...
...Gray was drawn back to pageants after an expos paper devoted to the Miss America pageant led her to realize that potential winners have to give back to society...
Hollywood could not have dreamed up a more singular tale. Lynch, a onetime Miss Congeniality winner in the beauty pageant at her county fair, enlisted in the Army out of necessity, to help pay for the college education she needed to become a kindergarten teacher. Her odyssey began on the evening of March 23, when she and 14 other soldiers from her convoy of the 507th Maintenance Company were ambushed on or near Highway 1, a main north-south artery into Baghdad. Though the details of that night and the following days remain hazy, at least five of the soldiers...