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DIED. Susan Butcher, 51, champion musher who won the Iditarod dogsled race four times, the first in 1986; of complications from a bone-marrow transplant to treat polycythemia vera, a rare blood disease; in Seattle, Wash. Of the grueling, 1,152-mile slog through the Alaskan wilderness Butcher once said, "I do not know the word quit. Either I never did, or I have abolished...
...aperitif offerings to unimaginative gin or scotch, while patrons wash down fish dishes with overpriced Chianti from Bosco's depleted stocks, as no white wine is to be had. Retailers smell a conspiracy. "These are the first steps to reinstate a state monopoly on the alcohol trade," says Vera Nefedova, general manager of Vincroft, a private company that runs a four-supermarket chain in Moscow. The state is set to destroy small businesses, and force others to enlarge, she believes: "It'll be easier to take them under centralized control that way." She may be right. Last summer, Russian President...
...chorus of shows with scores by some pretty sharp tunesmiths: Harold Rome (Sing Out the News), Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein (Very Warm for May ), Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart (Higher and Higher) and Cole Porter (Panama Hattie). In three of those shows she shared stage space with Vera Ellen, who would join Allyson in MGM musicals; in another she played with Eve Arden, who'd supply comic vinegar to Allyson's sugar in '40s Hollywood...
GIVEN ALL THE UNCERTAINTIES, THE CITY'S evacuation plan is simple: Get out of town before a bad storm strikes. Vera Trippett, 34, stood in her three-bedroom ranch house in Gentilly last week, contemplating the rapidly approaching hurricane season. Her house stewed for weeks in 10 ft. of nasty water after Katrina. She's reluctant to put her trust in the levees, but, she says, "I do have faith in the Corps' need not to be embarrassed again." As a result, she and her husband John are finishing repairs. They have gutted their house, put in hurricane-resistant windows...
...tranquility of these images is at odds with Abramtsevo's fractious history. In 1899, Vera's dad found himself accused of embezzlement and jailed. Although he was cleared by a Moscow court in 1900, the state seized his railways, and he was financially ruined. However, Mamontov held onto Abramtsevo, and he died and was buried there in 1918. The state turned it into a museum in 1919. The rest is art history. moscow-taxi.com/out-of-town/abramtsevo-estate.html