A sneak peek at the beautiful location and finalists' stunning fashion. 

After his eight-week journey, Sean Lowe is finally ready to hand out the final rose on The Bachelor season finale. 

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Catherine Giudici and Lindsay Yenter are looking fabulous in Thailand, as they head to the final rose ceremony, where Sean, looking pretty good himself, might pop the question. (We bet he does!) 

The road to love hasn't been so effortless for Sean. The once rejected Bachelorette contestant dealt with his share of drama this season, including Tierra, the woman America loved to hate, a hostile hometown date with Des, and a silent, and very angry, goodbye from AshLee. 

Will the lucky lady be Catherine, the 26-year-old graphic designer from Seattle or Lindsay, the 24-year-old Missouri girl who started the season off in a wedding dress? 

Take a look at the gallery of behind-the-scenes photos of Sean, Lindsay and Catherine on The Bachelor season finale, which airs in a 3-hour special on Monday, March 11 on ABC. 

Yet, sometimes transformation comes via the agency of unanticipated and subordinate actors.mori lee bridesmaid dresses One of the most compelling moments of this type came in 1971 with the advent of so-called ping pong diplomacy, which led communist China away from isolation. 

The catalyst for this initiative was an unexpected friendship between an American player, Glenn Cowan (another American free spirit) and the Zhuang Zedong,bari jay bridesmaid dresses the Chinese three-time world champion at a tournament in Japan. When Cowan missed his team bus, he was invited onto the Chinese bus; and after some casual talking through an interpreter, Zhuang Zedong presented him with a silkscreen portrait of the Huangshan Mountains. In exchange, Cowan later gave Zhuang Zedong a t-shirt with a red, white and blue peace emblem and the words "Let It Be". 

Chairman Mao Zedong seized on this sideline moment, using it to mobilize a national initiative via the US table tennis team. In April 1971,Beautiful The Latest Wedding DressesBeautiful Bridal Dresses nine American players with a small entourage crossed the bridge from Hong Kong to the Chinese mainland, played in some exhibition matches and toured the major sites in Beijing. These events then facilitated "the week that changed the world" – the 1972 visit of President Richard Nixon to China and its subsequent recognition by the US. 

Could Rodman's visit achieve the same galvanizing effect? This seems implausible, given the record of the North Korean regime, with its continued testing of missiles and nuclear weapons. The most conceivable outcome is that Rodman will suffer be stigmatized even more than other anti-diplomats; after all, he applauded a regime that runs gulags amid widespread mass hunger, calling its leader "awesome". But notwithstanding this likelihood, his visit reconfigures what anti-diplomacy can mean, and even points to a possible analogy between successful ping pong diplomacy and Rodman's awkward and contrived basketball diplomacy.high low prom dresses