Related Articles: Pageants and Politics
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MEDIA
Must See TV?
2/5/2009 12:00:00 AMNBC Universal CEO Jeff Zucker enjoys being in the hot seat. From his overheated office (he maintains it in the balmy 80s), Zucker is tasked with guiding the company through the economic crisis and into its long-term digital future. "We are in the middle of one of the worst recessions of our lifetime and maybe in modern American history," says Zucker. Among his challenges: NBC Universal could see 2009 profits decline by as much as 9 percent, and it's beginning its fifth straight year with NBC's primetime ratings lagging behind those of FOX, ABC and CBS.
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CRIME
The Audacity Of Dope
1/7/2009 12:00:00 AMNearly everything about it was journalistic catnip: Laura Elena Zúñiga Huizar, a 23-year-old beauty queen, arrested just outside of the Mexican city of Guadalajara with seven alleged drug traffickers, two assault rifles, handguns, ammunition, 16 cell phones and $53,000 in U.S. currency, just before Christmas Eve. They were going shopping in Bolivia and Colombia, Miss Sinaloa 2008 told the authorities. But beneath the surface lay a tragic reality: few are immune from Mexico's drug war these days.
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POLITICS
McCain’s Mrs. Right
8/30/2008 12:00:00 AMSarah Palin posed for a photo spread in Vogue, but that's about as far as the glamour goes. She piles her hair up in a librarian's bun and wears what she calls "schoolmarm" glasses (one blogger compared her to "Tina Fey's sexier sister"). She was at one time a beauty queen, Miss Wasilla 1984, in her hometown, population: 7,000 or so. "We were really surprised when she wanted to do it," her father, Chuck, told the Vogue reporter. "That wasn't her thing." Basketball and hunting were more like it. Palin regretted the whole beauty pageant experience. "They made us line up in bathing suits and turn our backs so the male judges could look at our butts. I couldn't believe it!" she told Vogue.
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CAMPAIGN 2008
'Work Harder, Prove Yourself'
8/29/2008 12:00:00 AMBut I'm looking long-term. I'm looking at my kids growing up and wanting to provide them opportunities, wanting them to realize clean air, clean water, healthy wildlife up there in Alaska. We've got to make sure we're taking care of that today, which means we've got to make sure the producers of our oil and our gas are following the law. In fact, we have to beef up and strengthen our environmental laws in Alaska so that we can prove we have the correct oversight to allow this development to happen. So, recently, in suing Exxon, BP, Conoco Phillips, you know, the party leaders don't like that.
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