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...trophies or teddy bears as prizes, others award cars, cash or scholarship money. A pageant based in Florida, Sunburst U.S.A. International, gives away more than $1 million in prizes every year. At age six, Lisa Iverson is already "Miss American Beauty Queen of Hearts," "Children of the World Supreme Winner," "U.S.A. National Scholarship Little Miss," Hawaiian Tropic "Superstar Photogenic," Hawaiian Tropic "Hollywood Babe" and "Miss American Starlet Fashion Model." She has won enough money to pay for college...
...nihilist satire of a teenage wasteland, went on to become MTV's highest-rated series, despite loud put-downs from some critics who often took the pair's debased antics too literally. The wide-screen adaptation of the show, Beavis and Butt-head Do America, was the surprise winner of the holiday season, taking in $20 million in its opening weekend to finish No. 1 at the box office and going on to gross more than $56 million. Now Judge is bringing his lean, subversive vision of ranch-house America to prime-time network television with King of the Hill...
...Best Books of 1996" the Moor's Last Sigh was mentioned as Salman Rushdie's first novel since The Satanic Verses. However, he wrote a novel, Haroun and the Sea of Stories (winner of a Writers' Guild award), in 1990 while in hiding after the fatwa. During this period he also published Imaginary Homelands, a collection of essays and criticism, and his first (and so far only) collection of stories, East, West. IRFAN AHMAD KHAN Karachi, Pakistan...
...them off college football's perch, but last year's 62-24 thumping by Nebraska in the title game at the Fiesta Bowl. "They just beat us at every part of the game," Florida State coach Bobby Bowden said. "They kept us pinned down the whole night." Heisman Trophy winner Danny Wuerffel was 18-of-34 for 306 yards, throwing three touchdown passes to Ike Hilliard and running for another as the Gators scored more points than any other team in Sugar Bowl history. And with Florida State's star runner, Warrick Dunn, hobbled by cramps, the Gator defense clamped...
...Hong Kong's 6.3 million citizens, only 400 had a vote in the matter. And last week that elite group of electors arrived at the Hong Kong Convention Center in a procession of Rolls-Royces and Mercedes-Benz to cast their ballots for a winner anointed long before. Indeed, the deciding vote for shipping magnate Tung Chee-hwa may have been recorded in January, when China's President Jiang Zemin singled him out from a crowd of his peers for a handshake when he was in Beijing. The votes cast last week by the 400--themselves carefully screened by Beijing...