AR-News: Fast-food loving Miss Missouri crowned Miss USA

[jim robertson]

Fast-food loving Miss Missouri crowned Miss USA
Tuesday, April 13, 2004 Posted: 8:19 AM EDT (1219 GMT)


LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- A fast-food loving beauty queen from 
Missouri who has two master's degrees and once wrestled a greased pig in a 
mud pit was crowned Miss USA 2004.

Shandi Finnessey, 25, won the title Monday night over 50 other contestants 
and will represent the United States at the Miss Universe pageant in Quito, 
Ecuador, on June 1.

Amanda Helen Pennekamp, Miss South Carolina, was first runner-up. Ashley 
Rachel Puleo, Miss North Carolina, was second runner-up, followed by Miss 
Oklahoma Lindsay Hill and Miss Tennessee Stephanie Culberson.

Finnessey, a 5-foot-11, blue-eyed blonde who said her favorite food is a 
supersized extra-value meal from McDonald's, jumped up and down and pumped 
her right arm while steadying the crown with her left hand after it was 
pinned on by outgoing titleholder Susie Castillo.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/West/04/13/miss.usa.ap/index.html




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always had the same thought: in their behavior toward creatures, all men are 
Nazis.
The smugness with which man could do with other species as he pleased
exemplified the most extreme racist theories, the principle that might is 
right."
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