Mallory Hagan won the beauty pageant after tap dancing to James Brown's "Get Up Off of That Thing" and answering a question about whether armed guards belong in grade schools by saying we should not fight violence with violence.

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At MIT, courses on anything from engineering to writing to tap dancing are shared over large screens with students at universities in Singapore.

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This wide-release, computer animated, family comedy comes from the same creative team that brought us Babe, and focuses on a tone deaf, tap dancing penguin who is determined to be himself no matter what anyone else thinks.

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The film begins shakily, but when Broderick steps up for his first big number the sets open up, some tap-dancing beauties are brought out, and the film begins to fly.

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After all, there is nothing earnest about a "talking" bus from which you are encouraged to wave at passersby or to cheer for that gentleman in a navy-blue suit who just started tap dancing down 42nd Street.

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Japan restored their two-goal advantage from a brisk counter attack, with Honda dancing his way into the area and committing Sorensen, before pulling the ball back for Okazaki to tap into the empty net.

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