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Instant Beauty Pageant, 10pm, Style. This is one of our favorite reality/contest series, where Debbie Matenopoulos and Cameron Mathison grab five unsuspecting women, give them three hours and $400 and ask them to compete against each other in a beauty contest. It’s especially fun when, like in tonight’s season 2 debut, one of the women seems to be a shoo-in and another, who initially appears to be a long-shot, blooms like a flower. The rule generally is that you can’t figure out who will win based on first impressions. • Saturday, April 7 America’s Cutest Puppies, 9pm ET, WE tv. Remember The Puppy Channel, the televised parking space featuring nothing but frolicking puppies and sweet music? Doggone it, this 10-ep contest is much more—so much more. It’s a nine-city contest for the most adorable canine.
Pelosi tells Bush to ‘calm down threats’
Republicans eventually blinked after the public sided with a down-but-not-out Clinton, who recovered politically and went on to win the 1996 election. Whether Bush could rebound is uncertain. His poll numbers have hovered around 30 percent approval for months, and there has been little good news for him throughout his second term. There are risks for Democrats, too, even if they think that Bush has little credibility. "Democrats have to be careful not to shut down the Pentagon or force some unforeseen consequences because the price they’re going to pay is to make the war their war as opposed to Bush’s war," said former Rep. Leon Panetta (D-Calif.), Clinton’s chief of staff during the government shutdowns. "On the next round, make sure you have broad Republican support, whatever you do," he added. Meanwhile, Pelosi and Sen.
Vietnamese Dominate Nail Salon Business in the US
Cyndy Drummey, for one, isnt surprised by the numbers she easily can recite about the prevalence of Vietnamese Americans in the nail industry. Fifteen years ago, the nail business was still new to Vietnamese Americans. But it made sense, she says. The educational requirements were reasonable. You didnt have to speak English. There wasnt a lot of start-up money required, and so you could have a quick start and be able to make a small living. These days, its a main source of living for the Vietnamese American community. Drummey, publisher of VietSALON, a bi-monthly magazine, says that nearly 45 percent of the nail salons in the United States employ Vietnamese technicians or are Vietnamese owned. Their success has led to her success: the number of subscribers to her publication is at an all-time high of 25,000.
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