The United States bets on Rima Fakih, Lebanese-American, to win the Miss Universe crown, their first after all these past thirteen years that it had been worn by other beauties from around the world.
Of course, other nations think their candidates are as deserving to bring home that crown and wear it during the next 364 days or so.
The candidate from the Philippines, Bb Pilipinas-Universe Venus Raj, who, like Miss USA is of mixed parentage, is the online popular choice. "La Filipina, favorita de los internautas," the Internet favorite, as the
El Universal of Venezuela reported, citing that Venus topped with 3.59 points over Misses Bolivia (2.99), Venezuela (2.93), Jamaica (2.90), Thailand (2.77), Indonesia (2.76) and Peru (2.75).
On this eve of the pageant in Las Vegas, a few newspapers gave space to the candidates in their front pages although not very prominently.
What you see here are clippings from those pages. Highly unusual is the
Al Watan Daily, a Kuwait paper, which featured Miss Mexico in her national costume.
PS. 24 August, 2010. We watched the pageant live on TV this morning, and noted how the voting went. Miss Mexico was top both in the swimsuit and evening gown competition with Misses Australia and Jamaica close behind. The scores alone indicated that any one of them would be Miss Universe.
"La Filipina," the Internet crowd favorite, was in the narrowing magic circles but the scores indicated she would not make it to the top. Her "nothing major major" answer in the Q&A did not impress after hearing the other four finalists before her turn. We wonder how she would have dealt with the question posed to Miss Mexico who was already in the lead both in the swimsuit and evening gown portions.
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