Miss India is not bad either...I hear she's the heads on favorite to win...
Posted on 07/21/2006 5:44:06 PM PDT by Cecily
LOS ANGELES - Peace reigns at least at the Miss Universe 2006 contest, where beauties Miss Lebanon and Miss Israel are the "best of friends" despite the bloody fighting between the two countries back home, their companions said.
Even as Israel has bombarded Lebanon in the wake of a missile barrage by the Hezbollah militia in the country's south, the two women -- Gabrielle Bou Rached of Lebanon and Israel's Anastacia Entin -- have struck up a friendship ahead of Sunday's tough competition to see who is named the world's most beautiful woman.
"I think the perpetrators of the current Middle East crisis could learn a few lessons from Miss Lebanon and Miss Israel, who are the best of friends here," said Miss Germany Natalia Ackerman.
The contest doesn't allow much room for warring, with contestants from 86 countries this year all crammed into the same Los Angeles hotel for a month with a rigorous schedule of rehearsals for the show. Mostly in their early twenties, the women become friends mainly based on geographic nearness and shared languages.
Entin and Rached have been pulled together by the force of shared cultures, whatever is happening back home, smiling, posing for pictures together, even though Rached's presence sparked a protest by some 20 Lebanese Muslims Wednesday in front of the downtown Los Angeles hotel.
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The women on the left looks like Katie! I am serious. I thought it was for a split second.
OMG, that is funny!
Love our Austrialians! But what about of closest ally....Great Britain. Did they not compete this year?
There is no Miss Hezbollah.
too many black girls CHOOSE to, well, trick themselves up like cheap tricks.
Lesbianese.
But can they sew.
I wonder if these middle eastern women have to wear burkhas? You think?
Actually, I think it was bad grammar, or bad style. No, I don't think black girls as a population look like cheap tricks. I think these particular contestants, the black girls, as opposed to the white contestants featured, look classy. I thought, overall, the white girls looked way to vampy and cheap. The black girls didn't. V's wife.
Miss India is not bad either...I hear she's the heads on favorite to win...
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