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Beauty Pageant Diplomacy

By The Daily Dish
Jul 23 2008, 11:17 AM ET

By Jessie Roberts

Douglas Muir writes that Miss Kosovo is big news:

1) the pageant accepted Kosovo as a country, and

2) Miss Kosovo made it into the top ten. (To be precise, she placed sixth in swimsuit and eighth in evening gown.)

Putting aside (1) for the moment, (2) is a pretty huge deal. The Top Ten are always dominated by big countries, and this year is no exception: the USA, Russia, Italy, Australia, Mexico, Spain. It’s very rare for a Balkan country to get in. For a girl from Kosovo to come this far… well.



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