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...likely to be foreign athletes. The U.S. ski team, headed by Bode Miller and Daron Rahlves, is looking to bring home multiple medals. The injured Michelle Kwan, still chasing the only gold that's ever eluded her, will face strong challenges from teammate Sasha Cohen and Russia's Irina Slutskaya, seven-time European and twice World champion. The Scandinavians will struggle to protect their longtime hold on Nordic events from the Russian, Ukrainian and Czech skiers hot on their heels. Austrian ski great Hermann Maier will attempt to complete his miraculous comeback from a near fatal motorcycle crash...
...Tossers, a South-side Chicago band that whose style fuses traditional Celtic music and punk rock. 18+. The Middle East Upstairs. 9 p.m. $10 in advance through Ticketmaster, $12 at the door. (CEJ)Sunday, Oct. 30Violin and Piano Concert. Head over to church this Sunday and let Irina Muresanu, violinist, and Michael Lewis, pianist, make your spine tingle with gorgeous rhythm and melody. Harvard-Epworth Church, 1555 Massachusetts Ave. 5 p.m. Free. (TMN)Wynton Marsalis. Don’t miss nine-time Grammy-award-winning jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis who promises an unforgettable performance. Sanders Theatre. 5 p.m. Tickets available...
...summer on donations, but, he says: "Come the fall, the entire archive just might have to go. The landlords have been nice enough, but the market is the market, and this apartment may yield a better rent." Prominent Russians, such as writer Yevgeny Pasternak, son of Boris Pasternak, and Irina Arkhipova, president of the International Music Union, have called upon the public to help, but no financial savior has yet emerged. "No memory survives without the material evidence," says Matsov, gravely...
...Kremlin's propaganda heavies did have their moments until a hundred-pound dissident, Irina Grivnina, only three weeks out of the Soviet Union, took them head on in one of freedom's forums, the press conference. Not used to such tumult, the Soviets stomped off the stage in anger while a scornful world watched. The Jesse Jackson score was evened by another determined woman, Avital Shcharansky, the hauntingly beautiful wife of Dissident Anatoli Shcharansky, still held in a Soviet prison after eight years. Bella Abzug, the American liberal agitator, was met on Geneva's free streets by Phyllis Schlafly...
...Lomeiko soon discovered that an open press policy can bring embarrassing questions. During a Sunday session in the cavernous briefing room, Irina Grivnina, a Soviet dissident who had been allowed to emigrate only last month, started yelling about political prisoners. The next day, when Swiss officials told Grivnina to leave as Lomeiko began his briefing, she angrily refused, pointing out her credentials as a reporter for the weekly Dutch magazine Elseviers. Grivnina's shouts attracted a stampede of reporters. Lomeiko, fuming about "people who use this for their own purposes," could barely be heard above the din. "It's either...