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Sopen B. Shah ’08, runner-up in the America’s Junior Miss 2004 competition, agreed that some Harvard students get the wrong idea when they hear about her participation in the contest...
Because of our special tortured history on the subject of race, electing a black President would demonstrate that idea even more powerfully than electing a woman. Hillary Clinton's very success in building a political machine and becoming the front runner makes her candidacy seem less remarkable. Unlike Clinton, who explicitly says on the stump that it's time for a woman President, Obama contents himself with code. "It's time to move forward," he says. But we all get the message...
...having posted a second lackluster fund-raising quarter and with only $2 million in the bank, the once presumptive front runner's campaign finds itself struggling to survive. The operation is laying off staffers by the dozen and slashing the salaries of those who are left. Campaign manager Terry Nelson is working without pay. The campaign is narrowly refocusing itself on the early states of Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina--though the fact that McCain is cutting back his field operations in those states will make the challenge steeper. He is also considering accepting presidential matching funds, a move...
...Still, New Zealand has won two of the last four America's Cups and been runner-up in the other two. That is a better record than the country has in the next event to which it will turn its attention, September's Rugby World Cup in France. For many Kiwis, defeat on the water is one thing. Defeat on the rugby pitch... now, that's pain...
Success in the global beauty market, however, is not necessarily embraced back home. Last year's Miss Universe runner-up Kurara Chibana has been a commercial hit back in Japan; and with her east Asian facial features she has snagged more than 100 magazine pages and was chosen to be the spokesperson for a popular shampoo Asience, which celebrates Asian beauty (other endorsers include the Chinese actress Ziyi Zhang). However, Miss Universe Mori fits the more statuesque, chiseled mold of Latin American and southeast Asian beauties. When a Japanese sports daily mistakenly published Miss Thailand's picture as Mori...