<![CDATA[Alejandro Guevara Onofre - Yahoo! Voices]]> en-us Copyright 2012 voices.yahoo.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sun, 12 Feb 2012 10:47:35 EDT http://l.yimg.com/ck/siteimg/PP-voices.jpg http://voices.yahoo.com/ Voices <![CDATA[Celebrating 60 Years of Miss Universe: 39th Miss Universe 1990 Los Angeles (CA). History!]]> High-profile Hollywood figure Haig S. Ngor becomes one of the judges. The Academy Award-winning Cambodian-born actor was a Khmer Rouge death camp survivor during Pol Pot’s reign of terror in Cambodia (1975-1979), where were slaughtered...

Contributor: Alejandro Guevara Onofre
Published: Nov 22, 2011

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/celebrating-60-years-miss-universe-10507205.html <![CDATA[Great Black Queens: The Untold Story of Miss Universe. Who Were the Key Beauties?]]> Halle Berry, then an up-and-coming American actress, had failed to win the Miss USA in Miami Beach, losing an opportunity to travel to Panama City, home of the Miss Universe Pageant 1986.

Contributor: Alejandro Guevara Onofre
Published: Sep 27, 2011

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/great-black-queens-untold-story-9506175.html <![CDATA[Miss Angola (Sub-Saharan Africa) Wins Miss Universe 2011, Becoming the First Black MU in the 21st Century]]> Like in Namibia 1995, and Trinidad 1999, Brazil paid tribute to their African roots appointing a daughter of Africa as the new MU, in a final as thrilling as the duel between Miss TT, Janelle Commissiong, and Miss Austria ,Eva Duringer in the DR in 1977.

Contributor: Alejandro Guevara Onofre
Published: Sep 14, 2011

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/miss-angola-subsaharan-africa-wins-9127963.html <![CDATA[Celebrating 60 Years of Miss Universe: 43rd Miss Universe 1994 Manila (Philippines). History!]]> Before competing in MU 1994, Shusmita Sen defeats Ashwarya Rai (then considered by movie star Julia Roberts as the most beautiful girl on the Planeta) in the finals of Miss India.

Contributor: Alejandro Guevara Onofre
Published: Sep 12, 2011

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/celebrating-60-years-miss-universe-9118895.html <![CDATA[Celebrating 60 Years of Miss Universe: 35th Miss Universe 1986 Panama City (Panama). History!]]> Would-be model Helena Christensen, whose exotic beauty propelled her to international stardom in the 1990s, represents Denmark in the contest, but she does not even make the Top 12.

Contributor: Alejandro Guevara Onofre
Published: Sep 12, 2011

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/celebrating-60-years-miss-universe-9118703.html <![CDATA[Celebrating 60 Years of Miss Universe: 46th Miss Universe 1997 Miami Beach (FL). History!]]> America wins MU, reviving flashes of its brilliant past with a girl from Honolulu (U.S. captures its seventh tournament after finishing fourth in Las Vegas 1996).

Contributor: Alejandro Guevara Onofre
Published: Sep 12, 2011

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/celebrating-60-years-miss-universe-9118533.html <![CDATA[Celebrating 60 Years of Miss Universe: 42nd Miss Universe 1993 Mexico City (Mexico). History!]]> Jacqueline Onassis-Kennedy is in Miss Universe? Apparently. With her physical resemblance to former First Lady Jacqueline Onassis-Kennedy, Miss Brazil 1993 Leila Schuster becomes the first favorite from that country at MU since July 1982.

Contributor: Alejandro Guevara Onofre
Published: Sep 12, 2011

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/celebrating-60-years-miss-universe-9118373.html <![CDATA[Celebrating 60 Years of Miss Universe: 56th Miss Universe 2007 Mexico City (Mexico). History!]]> Ines Ligron is the Best Miss Universe National Director for the second time in a row, becoming the third foreign-born manager to win the MU title. Ligron is the visionary who turned Japan from contenders to champions!

Contributor: Alejandro Guevara Onofre
Published: Sep 12, 2011

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/celebrating-60-years-miss-universe-9117761.html <![CDATA[Celebrating 60 Years of Miss Universe: 41st Miss Universe 1992 Bangkok (Thailand). History!]]> World-famous performer and human-rights activist Miriam Makeba from South Africa is one of the telecast judges at the 1992 Miss Universe in the Thai capital of Bangkok.

Contributor: Alejandro Guevara Onofre
Published: Sep 12, 2011

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/celebrating-60-years-miss-universe-9117705.html <![CDATA[Celebrating 60 Years of Miss Universe: 34th Miss Universe 1985 Miami Beach (FL). History!]]> Foreign-born American delegates have not good luck in Miss Universe! Like Marite Ozers in 1963, who was born in the Soviet republic of Latvia, and the Hungarian-born Maria Reminyi in 1966, Miss USA Laura Martinez-Herring does not reach the semis in 1985.

Contributor: Alejandro Guevara Onofre
Published: Sep 12, 2011

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/celebrating-60-years-miss-universe-9117633.html <![CDATA[Celebrating 60 Years of Miss Universe: 49th Miss Universe 2000 Nicosia (Cyprus). History!]]> Japanese Revolution of Beauty! Frenchwoman Ines Ligron resuscitates Miss Japan, which had its golden age in the first half of the 1970s. She imposed strict preparation regimes during the pageants.

Contributor: Alejandro Guevara Onofre
Published: Sep 12, 2011

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/celebrating-60-years-miss-universe-9117577.html <![CDATA[Celebrating 60 Years of Miss Universe: 40th Miss Universe 1991 Las Vegas (NV). History!]]> Seven months before being officially dissolved as the Union Soviet Socialists Soviet (USSR), the second Miss Soviet Union Universe is declared as one of the three most beautiful girls on the Planet by judges in Las Vegas.

Contributor: Alejandro Guevara Onofre
Published: Sep 10, 2011

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/celebrating-60-years-miss-universe-9107445.html <![CDATA[Celebrating 60 Years of Miss Universe: 38th Miss Universe 1989 Cancun (Mexico). History!]]> The young exotic Eva Pedraza from Spain is considered a serious contender for the title by experts, photographers, fashion designers, and journalists, but she is eliminated for the second round by a worldwide jury

Contributor: Alejandro Guevara Onofre
Published: Sep 10, 2011

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/celebrating-60-years-miss-universe-9107121.html <![CDATA[Celebrating 60 Years of Miss Universe: 37th Miss Universe 1988 Taipei (Taiwan/ROC). History!]]> The International jury show a preference for women from Far East. The first all-Asian MU final: Thailand vs South Korea. It is a history-making day for the continent.

Contributor: Alejandro Guevara Onofre
Published: Sep 10, 2011

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/celebrating-60-years-miss-universe-9106533.html <![CDATA[Celebrating 60 Years of Miss Universe: 45th Miss Universe 1996 Las Vegas (NV). History!]]> Yet, her reign was controversial and criticized in her own country. Her body had changed: from being a slender girl to become the fattest Miss Universe of all time! Since then, Alicia Machado had hurt the pride of Venezuela, a beauty-obsessed country.

Contributor: Alejandro Guevara Onofre
Published: Sep 10, 2011

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/celebrating-60-years-miss-universe-9106457.html <![CDATA[Celebrating 60 Years of Miss Universe: 44th Miss Universe 1995 Windhoek (Namibia, Africa). History!]]> Africa, a 1982 song by the American rock band Toto, has become the soundtrack to footage of the Miss Universe Pageant in Namibia,a wildlife paradise in sub-Saharan Africa.

Contributor: Alejandro Guevara Onofre
Published: Sep 10, 2011

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/celebrating-60-years-miss-universe-9106399.html <![CDATA[Celebrating 60 Years of Miss Universe: 36th Miss Universe 1987 Singapore City (Singapore). History!]]> Not judge a book by its cover! Cecilia Bolocco of Chile takes the world by storm as a MU from a country suffering under the international isolation, alongside South Africa, Israel and Taiwan.

Contributor: Alejandro Guevara Onofre
Published: Sep 07, 2011

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/celebrating-60-years-miss-universe-9091247.html <![CDATA[Celebrating 60 Years of Miss Universe: 32nd Miss Universe 1983 St.Louis (MO). History!]]> Italian-born Swiss model Lolita Morena, who wants to become an Egyptologist, gains the Miss Photogenic award before placing third in the international tournament in the American city of Saint Louis (MO).

Contributor: Alejandro Guevara Onofre
Published: Sep 07, 2011

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/celebrating-60-years-miss-universe-9090725.html <![CDATA[Celebrating 60 Years of Miss Universe: 31st Miss Universe 1982 Lima (Peru). History!]]> A spectacular beauty from white-ruled South Africa,huge favorite, receives the lowest score (7.225) in the swimsuit category from the international jury led by Mario Vargas Llosa (admirer of Nelson Mandela), finishing in sixth position in MU 82.

Contributor: Alejandro Guevara Onofre
Published: Sep 07, 2011

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/celebrating-60-years-miss-universe-9089975.html <![CDATA[Celebrating 60 Years of Miss Universe: 15th Miss Universe 1966 Miami Beach (FL). History!]]> Hungarian-born American beauty queen Maria Reminyi (former Miss California) is one of 15 semi-finalists but does not qualify for the following round!

Contributor: Alejandro Guevara Onofre
Published: Sep 06, 2011

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