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...surface, Miss Harvard sure looks like a beauty pageant. Its four rounds, introductions, swimwear, talent and interviews, sound awfully familiar. Wait, they say, this will be an “alternative” swimwear competition—the bathing suits, you see, are optional. And the formal gowns that contestants typically wear during beauty pageants—they’re optional, too. According to Impact, the show is really about “talent,” not the appearance of the eight contestants. To this end, they were even so wise as to include the women?...
...boulevard. So she takes ideas and jacks them up a bit for cyberspace. Explains Ryou, who dons baggy hip-hop pants, a red tank top and bright yellow hair when she logs on: "People want their avatars to be flashier than they are in real life. When we did swimwear, there were guys who would go around in trench coats with just their bathing suit on underneath...
...pageant, which will include swimwear, evening wear and talent competitions, is sponsored by IMPACT, a student group which raises funds for poor children in developing nations...
...find out which one is her father, was an escapist trifle. And the production hardly disguises the frivolousness of what is onstage: the choreography, when it can be deciphered, is unremarkable; the costumes (a mix of disco-glitz and suburban soccer mom, with an odd preponderance of swimwear) are ho-hum; and the cast, headed by Louise Pitre as the free-spirited mom, is short on big names and big voices...
Shareholders find it harder to ignore some of Wachner's more complicated dealings--like her dual role as chairman of both Warnaco and Authentic Fitness for much of the past decade. Wachner and a group of investors bought Warnaco's Speedo swimwear division in 1990 and took it public two years later as Authentic Fitness, only to bring it back to the corporate fold in 1999--a bit of financial gymnastics that helped prop up Wachner's bank account but ultimately loaded Warnaco's balance sheet with an extra $600 million in debt...