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LR eighth-grader ends up seventh-best speller

She stumbles on Mexican word ‘huapango'

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WASHINGTON — Samia Nawaz breezed through the first three words in the final round of the Scripps National Spelling Bee on Friday but tripped up on “huapango” — a style of Mexican music and dance — and finished seventh.


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This article was published Saturday, May 31, 2008.

Front Section, Pages 1, 8 on 05/31/2008

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