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...officers' call is echoed by a peace plan being touted by Israeli foreign minister Shimon Peres and Arafat aide Ahmed Kurei, as well as of various proposals emanating from the European Union and the Arab world. U.S. officials have been particularly interested in a proposal by Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Abdullah to offer Israel full normalization of relations with the Arab world in exchange for its withdrawal to the pre-1967 borders. Sharon has been conspicuously silent on actual peace plans, confining his diplomatic efforts to pressing Washington to add Yasser Arafat to its "axis of evil" column...
...population is ethnic Hungarian. Varga recalls hauling her family's black-and-white TV up a nearby hillside to pick up Hungarian football matches from across the border 150 km away. Last week Varga submitted her application for a Hungarian status card, which resembles a passport with a stylized crown of Hungary's founder-king, St. Stephen, on its cover. "Now we can prove we are a part of the Hungarian people," she says...
...curtain rose and I flashed my Vaseline-laden teeth and marched confidently in the opening parade, introduced as “Contestant #7, Attila ’da Honey.” For the second year in a row, I was sure the crown was mine for the taking...
...took home more than the crown that Friday evening; I took home a fear for my safety. If my classmates could get away with ridiculing me on stage, what could they do in my school’s unsupervised bathrooms and enormous parking lots? To make matters worse, Joseph dumped me after two weeks and moved to Colorado...
Ironically, the pageant that alerted me to the difficulties of being openly gay eventually taught me how to stave off harassment. I won the crown through flamboyance, by accentuating every detail of my femininity. While my fellow contestants despised me, the audience erupted with laughter and gave me standing ovations after both the talent and swimsuit competitions. For every person who mocked me, it seemed like three others admired how comfortable I appeared with myself. At school, girls loved to hear me talk about the latest guy I met on the Internet. One of my female classmates told...