Beauty contest coming back
Baltimore has scored another date with Miss USA. The internationally televised beauty pageant will be held here in the spring for the second year in a row, competition officials said...
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Shelter residents find sense of community
GULFPORT, Miss. - J.J. drives his butcher's knife into the bright flesh of a split watermelon and leaves it there. He squats down, squints and surveys the refugee-packed parking lot...
Sets and the city of Annapolis
Carole Duley's binoculars trembled a bit as she perched on a bench on the State House lawn, scanning the movie set below, where Matthew McConaughey was possibly - please God!...
Pageant fairy tale is over for contestants and NBC
Even as Donald Trump hovers like an overbearing fairy godmother around the newly crowned Miss USA 2005, who was spirited away yesterday to one of his New York lairs, the...
N.C.’s Cooley takes crown
Front foot at 3 o'clock, back foot at 12. Shoulders back, chest out, hips under. Smile! Fifty-one beauties struck the classic pageant pose when Miss USA 2005 aired live on...
The Perils of the Pretty
The white limo door opens like an oyster shell, and there, nestled in the leather of the back seat, is our pearl. Miss Virginia USA slides out, stands up, straightens....
A youth drifted from deep family ties to deep trouble
The first time Brian Nichols heard the door of a holding cell lock behind him, he was about 11 years old. His uncle, James Dow, stood guard outside. Then a...
E-mailers beware: ‘Private’ messages may be anything but
Millions of fingers would freeze in mid-typing right now if everyone in the world could keep in mind what a minefield e-mail can be. Consider what Tom Ryan, an information...
Web has changed the shape of ‘reporting’
"I don't like O'Malley and I am no Dumbocrat / Caligulite. Still, methinks you should validate stuff like this before you post it." So wrote "Sartorius" on Aug. 13, 2004....