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Brazil miniskirt student will parade in Carnival

SAO BERNARDO DO CAMPO, Brazil (AP) — Brazilians may be seeing a whole lot more of the student whose short pink dress got her booted from college: She's agreed to march in the nation's famously flesh-baring Carnival parades.

Geisy Arruda, who became an instant celebrity after being heckled by hundreds of fellow students because of her dress, said Thursday she has accepted invitations to participate...

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