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Kaki,Inc:

Managing a
Supermodel/CEO Lifestyle

In the new millennium, Kaki West has won half a dozen different beauty pageants and placed as a top runner-up in half a dozen more. The life of an international beauty queen would be busy and exciting enough, but Kaki is also a top model, aspiring actress, and the owner/CEO of the Miss Model USA Pageant.

With a mother and grandmother who were both models for the prestigious Ford Agency, Kaki?s modeling career is clearly a case of designer genes. But she obviously inherited brains, ambition, and drive as well. Her father, Francis J. ?Bing? West, was a Marine Corps infantry officer in Vietnam and Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs in the Reagan Administration. A former Woodrow Wilson Fellow at Princeton and a ?true warrior-scholar? with several award-winning books, the elder West is now president of a firm that designs combat decision-making simulations...

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