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Those most optimistic about the future tend to be people too young to remember Soviet times and unburdened by any ideological aversion to capitalism. Valentina Zagrebelnaya, 25, is part of that generation. She treads carefully as she crosses Lenin Street so as not to get mud on her spike-heeled ankle boots. She runs the Kaluga branch of KMB bank, which specializes in giving small loans to entrepreneurs. She was 21 when she opened the bank branch, a graduate fresh from the local arts college, with no financial experience. No matter. Although there were few takers in the first couple...
...grotesque on the big screen. Those reflexes anticipate what a director wants, when maybe what he wants is to be surprised. "You don't want some actor child who does everything perfectly and doesn't have a childlike aura," says Campbell Scott, who directed the then 13-year-old Valentina de Angelis in Off the Map, opening next week. "They have to be professional enough to not want to go home after three hours but unprofessional enough so they can be completely wild--so they...
When no. 1-ranked Valentina Vezzali faced off against No. 2 Giovanna Trillini in the women's individual foil final last week, they weren't merely dueling for gold. They were fighting for the title of top fencer in Jesi, the small Italian town where both grew up. And since Jesi has dominated the sport for more than a decade, being best in town right now means being best in the world. Before Athens, Trillini had won four Olympic golds (three team, one individual) and Vezzali had won three (two team, one individual). On the morning of their duel, held...
...Russian cosmonaut whose 1962 space flight set an endurance record; in Cheboksary, Chuvash Autonomous Republic. Nikolayev circled the earth 64 times in 96 hours in his record-breaking flight, during which he also became the first man in orbit to appear live on television. In 1963 he married Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space, reportedly to help the Soviets study the effects of space travel on human reproduction. The couple bore two children, but divorced...
...when they or their family members enjoyed Act I of the musical romance Nord-Ost (North-East), then found themselves immersed in a real-life tableau that unfolded in horror. "My late husband always joked that musicians and prostitutes will be safe under any regime," says Valentina Khramtsova, widow of Fyodor Khramtsov, a trumpet player in the show's orchestra. "Little did he know that this regime would kill the musicians, too." The family was seeking $1 million in damages, Khramtsova said, "to make the officials remember that their office is a job, not a privilege, to ensure that nothing...