Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
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■ As an
Ivy League graduate headed to law school with eyes on becoming her state’s first female governor, Miss North Dakota Cara Mund knows the importance of answering a question head-on. On Monday, after taking the winner’s traditional morning-after dip in the Atlantic City surf, Miss America 2018 reiterated that the U.S. should be part of the talks on greenhouse gases, which contribute to global warming. “My onstage question answer was just my personal opinion,” she said. “I think everyone has a right to think what they want. But it’s important to have a spot at the negotiating table. This isn’t necessarily: ‘Does climate change exist or not?’ but rather the fact that we’re going to keep our Earth clean for future generations, and I just think it’s really important that we have a seat there. To pull out, I think, is just really unfortunate.” President Donald Trump, who once owned the now-shuttered Atlantic City casino next door to where Mund spoke on Monday, has said the Paris accord was a bad deal economically for the United States. Trump has also called global warming a hoax. Mund, who did an internship last year with U.S. Sen. John Hoeven, R-N.D., would not say whether she is registered with any political party. “I have my personal opinions, and I’d rather say I’m not a Republican and I’m not a Democrat. I’m an American,” she said.
■ Tatiana Schlossberg, the daughter of Caroline Kennedy and granddaughter of President John F. Kennedy, has gotten married at the family’s Martha’s Vineyard home. The 27-year-old Schlossberg married 28-year-old George Moran on Saturday with former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick officiating. The couple met in college at Yale. Schlossberg was an environmental reporter for the The New York Times until July. Moran is a medical student at Columbia University. Schlossberg is Kennedy’s second child. She has an older sister, Rose, and a younger brother, Jack. They are President Kennedy’s only grandchildren. He was assassinated just before Caroline Kennedy’s sixth birthday in November 1963. Caroline Kennedy served as ambassador to Japan under former President Barack Obama until earlier this year. ■ Frozen star Kristen Bell said she was “singing in a hurricane” while riding out Hurricane
Irma in Florida. Bell is in Orlando filming a movie and staying at a hotel at the Walt Disney World resort. She stopped by an Orlando middle school that was serving as a shelter and belted out several songs from Frozen, describing the experience as her version of one of her favorite movies, Singin’ in the Rain. Back at the hotel, Bell posted pictures on Instagram of her singing with one guest and dining with a group of senior citizens. Bell also helped out the parents of Frozen co-star Josh Gad by securing them a room at the hotel.