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...levels of fun. Pam Shriver, 36, who retired last year, relishes her last professional foray, a doubles match that she and Elizabeth Smylie, then 34, played against Kournikova and Elena Likhovtseva, then 21, at Wimbledon in 1997. Hordes of hormonal boys were in the stands screaming "Come on, Horni-kova!" says Shriver as she only too happily recalls extending the younger team to a long third set before finally losing. And was Kournikova gracious in victory? Shriver bellows in laughter, "I'm sorry, but I don't think she knows the meaning of the word...
...EARTH, PEACE (CBS, 10-11 a.m.). The Christmas music of Central and East ern Europe, with Baritone Igor Gorin, Tenor Jan Kiepura and Soprano Eva Li-kova. Repeat...
...Russian government's gold reserves ever run out, it can always call on LIDIA SKOBLIKOVA, a dimpled, blonde schoolteacher from Siberia, who is going to need help from Brinks to get her winnings home. Speed Skater Skobli-kova, 24, won two gold medals at Squaw Valley in 1960. Last week she won three more, sweeping the 500 meters, the 1,000 meters and the 1,500 meters, setting Olympic records in all three races. "Now cut out that kissing," gasped Lidia, as teammates swarmed round to congratulate...
...ties for the younger boys, black-and-brown dresses and orange ties for the girls. Their rigid course takes nine years, with up to five hours of practice a day. On graduation day the students enter the state examination room, called by the school's Director Helen Bocharni-kova "the most terrifying place in Moscow," and dance for the choreographers of all Russia's major ballet theaters. They are then farmed out according to their ability, with the Bolshoi getting first pick of the crop...
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