‘Inquirer’ A Total Buzzkill

On Saturday night, Kimberly Rogers won the annual Miss Philadelphia pageant. Rogers is a 23-year-old graduate of Princeton. She has a degree in molecular biology. She’s also a pharmaceutical marketing consultant for TargetRx in Horsham, which I’d assume pays pretty well. And, uh, she’s Miss Philadelphia. And she’s gorgeous. (Geeze, she’s almost date-able!)

Gee, any way you can be a total buzzkill, Inquirer reporter Diane Mastrull?

As the newly crowned Miss Philadelphia, Kimberly Rogers smiled easily for the camera yesterday in a hotel suite fragrant with congratulatory bouquets.

It was not, however, a proud morning for the city she will spend the next year representing. Since Rogers’ pageant win Saturday night on the stage of Drexel University’s Mandell Theatre, three more lives had been lost to homicide, boosting the city’s death count to more than 100.

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