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...nine judges—the one from India—hailed from a country other than Britain and its white settler colonies. The contest supposedly demonstrated its impartiality last year by selecting Agbani Darego, Miss Nigeria, to be the first black African Miss World in the contest??€™s 50-year history. (Two previous African winners had been white South Africans, and one other had been an Arab Egyptian...
With Darego selected, the organizers followed the contest??€™s tradition of holding the next year’s finals in the winner’s home country. On some level it was a noble decision to pretend that Nigeria was capable of hosting a beauty pageant just like any other stable country. But there was also a very selfish aspect to this choice. The organizers were so determined to improve the pageant’s reputation that they were willing to endanger the safety of the contestants and the Nigerian people...
Tailgates aside, is there any better part of The Game than that point immediately after both teams have met at the contest??€™s conclusion and everyone reaches for as many ways to drink in the memory as possible...
...Yale’s inability to establish a running game in the later stages of the contest was its downfall. During the third quarter—while Harvard scored 20 points to take control of the contest??€”the Bulldogs netted out at negative-9 rushing yards...
After finishing first out of 13 teams—including rival MIT—at the 2002 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) International Collegiate Programming Contest??€™s Northeastern regional competition, the club’s reward is a March trip to the ACM’s World Finals in Beverly Hills, Calif...