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What a country! Monday, July 02, 2007By DAN MURTAUGH Staff Reporter In 1977, Zaki and Mahfuza Ali left their home in Dhaka, Bangladesh, for the United States with just a few dollars in their pockets and thoughts of the American dream in their heads. They earned Ph.D.'s in chemistry, got jobs with 3M in St. Paul, Minn., On Saturday, 30 years after they first came to America, their daughter Nora was named America's Junior Miss. "I cannot describe to you in words how I felt," Nora's mother, Mahfuza said Sunday. "The place I came from, and where we are now,...

St. Edward parishioner named America’s Junior Miss 07/19/2002 Ed Langlois KEIZER — The new America’s Junior Miss is a member of St. Edward Parish here who sings with enthusiasm for liturgy and takes sandwiches to homeless people living under Salem bridges. Late last month in Mobile, Ala., Amy Kerr was chosen as winner in the national scholarship contest, which is open to female high-school seniors who will go to college. Kerr, 18, won a total of $74,000 in college grants by taking part in the competition. She is bound next fall for Willamette University in Salem. As an active...