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When Sushmita Sen, the first Indian to be chosen Miss Universe, made her triumphant return to the subcontinent after the 1994 pageant, there were victory processions, gala parties and countless interviews. For fans like Yukta Mookhey, a teenager growing up in a middle-class suburb of Bombay, Sushmita was living a dream: she had been wrenched from an ordinary life and forged by the blast furnace of glamour and fame into a celebrity. Yukta, then 15, told her family that she too would one day wear a glittering crown. Her parents smiled at her adolescent fantasies, talked about college...
...newspapers Whitman read regularly, the New York Atlas, reported: "Horrible murders, stabbings, and shootings, are now looked for, in the morning papers, with as much regularity as we look for our breakfast." Whitman called New York "crime-haunted and dangerous." He said, "the revolver rules, the revolver is triumphant...
...Triumphant performances in district competition qualified Harvard to participate in the women's, coed and dinghy championship events. The ICYRA Championships signify the culmination of the college sailing year, which spans both the fall and spring seasons...
Richter's triumphant exit probably indicates that O'Brien is as on top of the world as a 12:35 a.m. comic can possibly...
...moralist had been committing adultery) had turned Giuliani's bracing Senate race-to-the-death against Hillary Clinton into something like "Days of Our Lives." Soap opera alters history. Everyone except Rudy says Rudy will drop out of the race now. Hillary, whose political career seems to take strange, triumphant energy from the sexual irregularities of the men in her life (parse that karma, if you can), appears destined to become the junior senator from New York, representing a state where she didn't even live until the day before yesterday...