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Court Approves Preteen's Reign as Carnival Queen
By not in system - AOL NewsRIO DE JANEIRO (Feb. 10) – A family court judge ruled Wednesday that a 7-year-old girl should be allowed to samba before a crowd of thousands as a Carnival drum corps queen, a coveted role normally reserved for sultry models. Little Julia Lira is scheduled to perform for the packed Sambadrome stadium – and for millions more around the country via live television – early Monday morning when the Viradouro samba group parades. Her father, Marco Lira, told reporters he knew "justice would prevail." The Rio state agency for child protection confirmed the ruling and said it ...
Tom DeLay Drops Out of 'Dancing With the Stars' Due to Injury
By Emily Miller - Politics DailyViewers of ABC's "Dancing With the Stars" were shocked Tuesday night when Tom DeLay announced that because of stress fractures in both feet, he was leaving the show. Earlier, DeLay and his professional dance partner, Cheryl Burke, looked stunned to hear that their samba the previous night, on his injured feet, had garnered enough viewer votes to make them "safe" to go to the next round. DeLay told me in an interview before the show's premiere that despite the pre-stress fracture in one foot, "I'll dance until the bone breaks." In the past week, the pre-stress fracture was diagnosed as a ...
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