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Kids pageants not all glitter
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Erin Meyers, 2, squirmed and fussed in her $300 beaded peach
dress Sunday, restlessly awaiting her turn in the spotlight at the
America's Beautiful Babies & Kids pageant in Mundelein.
"When it's nap time, forget it," said the Lockport toddler's
mother, Vikki Meyers. "I think we're going to take time off from
pageants after this."
Erin, the reigning Little Miss Illinois in the 0 to 35 months
age category, was one of 52 girls and teenagers competing for a title
in the first America's Beautiful Babies & Kids Illinois State
Pageant.
It is one of more than 100 beauty contests in a loosely ...
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Mahdi Army flexing muscles Al-Sadr followers push Sunnis out.
Newspaper article from: Columbia Daily Tribune
; ...capital from their brethren in the south. Mahdi Army militiamen in the Shiite-dominated...cordoned off the area. In the past 10 days, Mahdi Army activity has escalated, intensifying...appears to be part of a strategy by the Mahdi Army to control swaths of the once Sunni...
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Mahdi Army Patrols Shiite Neighborhoods
News Wire article from: AP Online
; ...with you." Al-Sadr's militia, the Mahdi Army, keeps a sharp eye out for strangers...bombers and other Sunni Arab militants. The Mahdi Army strikes fear among Sunni Arabs, who...district. Coalition officials believe the Mahdi Army and other militias have infiltrated...
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'Abdul-Mahdi's Case & Shi'ite Politics.
Newspaper article from: APS Diplomat Redrawing the Islamic Map
; ...preparing a campaign to implicate Abdul-Mahdi and the SIIC in a scandal potentially big...robbery by a gang including some of Abdul-Mahdi's main body-guards. Their plan, as...go away". As details emerged, Abul-Mahdi and the SIIC would suffer a PR body blow...
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 "The Racing Post (London, England)")
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Racing News: Mahdi could lose licence over finances; Club warns trainer after complaints from creditors.(Sports)
Newspaper article from: The Racing Post (London, England)
; Kamil Mahdi, who runs Almushtarak in the Group 1 Queen...Jockey Club, following complaints from Mahdi's creditors. John Maxse, the Jockey...spokesman, said yesterday: "In June, Mahdi was interviewed by the Licensing Committee...
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Life in Sudan Worsened Under Mahdi;Deposed Prime Minister Was Considered Man of Many Words but Little Action
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; When Sadiq Mahdi was elected prime minister of Sudan three...code of Islamic law. When soldiers drove Mahdi off to prison this morning, as part of...they were worse. The 53-year-old Mahdi, educated at Oxford and the great-grandson...
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Surge of Mahdi network threatens U.S. efforts
Newspaper article from: Sunday Gazette-Mail
; ...powerful Shiite armed faction known as the Mahdi Army and its increasingly unpredictable trajectory. The vast Mahdi network - ranging from hard-core fighting...withdrawal. Just a few months ago, the Mahdi Army and its leader, firebrand cleric...
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 "Aswat al-Iraq (Erbil, Iraq)")
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Al-Sadr consulted clergy, they "rejected" dissolving Mahdi Army.
Newspaper article from: Aswat al-Iraq (Erbil, Iraq)
; ...consulted the clergy about dissolving the Mahdi Army, but they "rejected" this issue...al-Maliki's demands to dissolve the Mahdi Army, the armed wing of the Sadrist movement...cleric referred in his statement that the "Mahdi Army will be hand by hand with the Iraqi...
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Iran Website Heralds 'Mahdi' by Spring.
Newspaper article from: Israel Faxx
; ...of the Shiite messianic figure, Imam Mahdi, noting he could arrive with Jesus by the spring equinox. "Imam Mahdi (may God hasten his reappearance) will...World toward Illumination," that the Mahdi will form an army to defeat the enemies...
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Anti-U.S. Mahdi Army keeps: the calm in Shiite-only areas
Newspaper article from: Sunday Gazette-Mail
; ...forces are truly in control. Instead, the Mahdi Army militia runs this area as it does...holds a firm grip on power. Some fear the Mahdi Army is simply biding its time - eager...employee who would give his name only as Abu Mahdi, 36, because he feared Mahdi militia...
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The first Osama bin Laden; Rise and fall of the Mahdi in 19th- century Sudan supplies painful lessons in how to respond to religious zealotry.
Newspaper article from: Sunday News Lancaster, PA
; ...Sudan. He told his followers to expect a Mahdi, "The Expected One," sent by Allah...Egyptian authorities did not take the Mahdi seriously. That opinion abruptly changed in 1881 after the Mahdi and his forces massacred an Egyptian army...
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