Miss America confronts a new reality
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She's been dressed up, dressed down, relocated and updated.
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ABC has dropped Miss America, leaving the famous beauty pageant without a network TV outlet for the first time in 50 years.
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At the Miss Universe pageant, a dialogue with the neighbor up north.
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LAS VEGAS, Jan. 29 -- Lauren Nelson, an aspiring Broadway star, was crowned Miss America on Monday night, the second year in a row that a Miss Oklahoma has won the crown.
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil  - If not for poor-quality  tattoos on the ankles of some contestants, lack of air  conditioning and the presence of uniformed female guards around  the doors, it would seem like a normal beauty pageant.
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The annual Miss America pageant will return to the Las Vegas Strip for its 2007 contest, organizers said Thursday. The crowning will air live on Country Music Television from the Aladdin Resort &amp; Casino on Jan. 29, organizers said.
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ATLANTIC CITY, N.J.  - Miss Alabama Deidre Downs,  an aspiring medical student, won the Miss America contest on  Saturday and said she would work to regain public respect for  the event.
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Two decades after a nude photo scandal helped cost a Miss America her title, Americans may be adopting a more ho-hum attitude toward people who bare it all for the cameras.
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Recently, there's been a bit of a brouhaha in the news about a Miss Teen USA 2007 contestant stumbling over what should have been a simple geography/education question (watch the video in all its schadenfreude glory).  This kind of slow news day reporting is not terribly interesting in and of itself, but it got me thinking about Mike Tyson.
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Friends suggest that her increasing presence in her husbandâs campaign reflects a clarity that comes from her cancer diagnoses.
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Given all that's at stake in the 2008 presidential race, it's a bit terrifying to realize that by one measure, a major role is being played by an aspiring model/actress/fashion designer/former beauty pageant contestant named Amber.
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The illustrator Norman Rockwell has often been mocked for creating an America that never was and never will be. But Kevin Rivoli, a photojournalist in upstate New York, will tell you thatâs just not true.
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Another beauty battle is moving to Las Vegas, at least for the time being.
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The N.A.A.C.P. is looking for a new leader. It also needs to come up with a new sense of purpose
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Women from 86 countries prepared to sashay in bikinis and evening gowns Sunday &#151; and perhaps talk a little about world peace &#151; for the final competition in the Miss Universe pageant, held in the United States for the first time in eight years.
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The mother of conjoined twins who have now been separated grapples with medical needs and new identities.
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ABC has dropped Miss America, leaving the famous beauty pageant without a TV outlet for the first time in 50 years.