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Article: Miss Russia wins 2002 Miss Universe title; scores points for saying the right thing in final question
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- AP Worldstream
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- May 30, 2002
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Dateline: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico
Oxana Fedorova of Russia won the 2002 Miss Universe crown Wednesday
night, wearing a white evening gown and telling a roaring crowd that
she blushes when she says the wrong things.
The five finalists were posed with a final question that dodged politics
or controversy: "What makes you blush?"
"When I say the wrong things!" the 24-year-old only child from St.
Petersburg, Russia, said grinning to a raucous crowd waving American
flags. Last year's question was "What would you change about your
life?"
The Russian beauty queen, who wore a puffy toga-like dress for the
evening gown competition, is a university ...