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Triple Gold Medal-winning speed skater Johann Olav Koss is leading efforts to arrange a global cease-fire during the 1996 Summer Olympics. Koss hopes that such an "Olympic Truce" will allow UNICEF relief workers to provide medical care to children in war-torn regions, especially Bosnia and Herzegovina. "I believe sport can give hope to children in those areas," the Norwegian Olympic champion told TIME Daily. He hopes a ceasefire during the Atlanta games will be more successful than a similar effort during the 1994 Winter Olympics in Koss' homeland, which produced only a brief truce in the Bosnian...
Cutting financial aid is "sort of a pet project of [Kasich]," says Derek Lick, spokesperson for former Budget Committee chair and current ranking minority member Martin Olav Sabo (D-Minn...
...most bemedaled competitor in U.S. women's Olympic history. After seven Olympic failures, Blair's fellow skater Dan Jansen set a world record in the 1,000-m race and got to carry the American flag in Sunday's closing ceremony. Norway's hometown boy, speed skater Johann Olav Koss, became the first athlete ever to win three golds with world-record times in one Games. Vreni Schneider of Switzerland won the women's slalom, becoming the first woman to win three Alpine gold medals. She did it in 1:56.01, earning her fifth career medal...
...Martin Olav Sabo (D., Minn...
Musical Banquet. Bruce Fithian, tenor and Olav Chris Henriksen, lute and theorbo, perform music of 17th-century Europe, including French airs de cour, English lute songs, Italian monodies and scherzi lute and theorbo solos. Sunday, October 3, 3 p.m. Somerville Museum, Central St. and Westwood Road, Somerville. $5 for students. Call 666-9810 for more information...